The Peter Martyr Library Volume Nine Commentary on ...

The Peter Martyr Library Volume Nine

Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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EDITORS OF THE PETER MARTYR LIBRARY, SERIES ONE

GENERAL EDITORS John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., Frank A James III, Joseph C. McLelland

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE W. J. Torrance Kirby, William J. Klempa

EDITORIAL BOARD

IRENA BACKUS Institut d'histoire de la R?formation

Universit? de Gen?ve

PETER S. BIETENHOLZ University of Saskatchewan

FRITZ B?SSER Institut f?r Schweizer Reformationsgeschichte, Zurich

EMIDIO CAMPI Institut f?r Schweizer Reformationsgeschichte, Zurich

RICHARD C. GAMBLE Reformed Theological Seminary

TIMOTHY GEORGE Beeson Divinity School

ROBERT M. KINGDON Institute for Research in the Humanities

University of Wisconsin?Madison

JOHN MCINTYRE University of Edinburgh

MICHAEL PERCIVAL-MAXWELL McGill University, Montreal

H. WAYNE PIPKIN Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries

JILL RAITT University of Missouri, Columbia

ROBERT V. SCHNUCKER University of Northern Iowa

DAN SHUTE The Presbyterian College, Montreal

JOHN TEDESCHI University of Wisconsin?Madison

THOMAS F. TORRANCE University of Edinburgh

DIARMAID MACCULLOUGH St. Cross College, Oxford University

JOHN VISSERS The Presbyterian College, Montreal

ALISTER E. MCGRATH Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University

CESARE VASOLI Universit? de Firenze

The Peter Martyr Library Volume Nine

COMMENTARY ON

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Peter Martyr Vermigli

Edited by Emidio Campi and Joseph C. McLelland with introduction and annotations by Joseph C. McLelland

VOLUME LXXIII SIXTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS & STUDIES

KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI USA 2006

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Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499?1562. [In primum, secundum et tertii libri Ethicorum Aristotelis ad Nicomachum. English] Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Peter Martyr Vermigli ; edited by Emidio Campi and Joseph C. McLelland. p. cm. -- (The Peter Martyr library ; ser. 1, v. 9) (Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 73) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN-13: 978-1-931112-55-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-931112-55-X (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. Book 1?3. 2. Ethics. I. Campi, Emidio. II. McLelland,

Joseph C. III. Title. IV. Series. BR350.V37 2006 [B430] 270.6'092 s--dc22 [171/

2006001487

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CONTENTS

General Editor's Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Editors' Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii Introduction by Joseph C. McLelland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Text and Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

Dedication by Giulio Santerenziano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Introduction by Peter Martyr Vermigli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Book 1: Happiness

Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135 Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173 Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218 Chapter 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232 Chapter 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252 Chapter 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258 Chapter 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264 Book 2: Virtue Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325 Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332 Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .338 Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351

Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365 Book 3: Will Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401

Appendix: Works of Peter Martyr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413 Index of Scripture References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .416 Index of Classical and Medieval References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .420 Subject Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .427 About the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE

The Peter Martyr Library presents a series of annotated translations from Latin into English of the writings of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499?1562). Previous volumes featured a variety of works: dogmatic, polemical, and biographical. Only one was a biblical commentary, although exegesis was Vermigli's chief role as lecturer in three centers of Reform: Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich. The present volume is a translation of his only nonbiblical commentary, his Strasbourg lectures on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. As such, it presented new challenges both in subject matter and vocabulary for the translators and editors. Much more than in the previous volumes, this was a team effort: eleven scholars on two continents worked on it in various ways.

This volume makes available a significant work of Vermigli's, displaying both his usual thoroughness and another dimension of his erudition. It also confirms something often overlooked, that the study and influence of Aristotle in university education did not go into sharp decline with the age of Erasmus and Luther. It offers our readers valuable information about Vermigli's own attitude to the relation between nature and grace, as well as the way philosophy was handled by a leading Reformer. Our series aims at providing the basic and essential tools to show the worth of this neglected scholar. Therefore, we hope this latest volume, a solid work reflecting a dimension of Reformed theology little recognized among us, will serve to stimulate further research on the nature of Reformed Aristotelianism, as well as Vermigli's own kind of philosophical theology.

John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.

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EDITORS' PREFACE

Peter Martyr Vermigli was a biblical exegete, but also an Aristotelian in philosophy, so his commentary on the philosopher's moral treatise holds special significance among his writings. It provides crucial evidence of two aspects of his thought. One is his commitment to the "practical Aristotle" familiar from his student days in Padua. Indeed, his knowledge of the philosopher is noteworthy: in this book he quotes from almost every work of Aristotle, from Categories to Poetics. The other is the evidence on view concerning the question--still moot--of "Reformed Scholasticism." This work suggests that this was no rigid system or sacrifice of scripture to philosophy. The nature of Scholasticism in both Roman and Reformed traditions should rather be understood as a pedagogical mode of organizing doctrine in behalf of clarity and interior logic.

This volume represents the collaboration of a scholarly team. Leszek Wysocki and Joseph McLelland of McGill University began a collaborative effort some years ago to translate the introduction and the first six chapters. Kenneth Austin (St. Andrews, Scotland) completed book 1. Stephen M. Beall, associate professor of classics at Marquette University, translated the remainder (the commentary breaks off at book 3.2). J. P. Donnelly (Marquette University) provided a translation of the dedication. The task of collating these translations was taken up by Roland Diethelm, then Emidio Campi's assistant in the schola Tigurina, with help from Luca Baschera, Esther Schweizer, and philologist Philipp W?lchli. J. P. Donnelly and Michael Silverthorne (formerly head of classics at McGill) read the whole for accuracy of translation. Emidio Campi's ill health forced him to hand over the final editing, including the introduction and footnotes, to Joseph McLelland; this process occasioned the delay in publication. Thus we have an international cooperative effort, linking Europe and North America in a significant contribution to scholarly research in early modern Europe. Its inclusion in the Peter Martyr Library is of great importance in approaching our Reformer in the proper light as both commentator and philosophical theologian.

Emidio Campi, Zurich Joseph C. McLelland, Montreal November 2005

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