We were pleased to welcome Susan Sauvé Meyer, University of Pennsylvania, for an Open House discussion about her new translation abridged from the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. The discussion was streamed live on Friday October 20 at 11 a.m. EDT on the Kosmos Society YouTube channel, and was recorded.
In preparation for this event you might like to read:
- her article ‘Aristotelian virtues for social media‘
- an article from the New Yorker (PDF)
- this handout comprising selections from her new translation (PDF)
You can watch the event on our YouTube channel, or below:
Susan Sauvé Meyer
Susan Sauvé Meyer works on Greek and Roman philosophy, with focus on the ancient ethical tradition and additional interests in the natural philosophy of the period (especially Aristotle and the Stoics). Her monograph Ancient Ethics (Routledge 2008) is a systematic treatment of Plato’s, Aristotle’s, Epicurean, and Stoic ethics designed to serve the interests both of students of ancient philosophy and of specialists in contemporary ethics who seek to understand the differences between Ancient and modern ethical philosophy. She has published a translation and commentary on Plato’s Laws, Books 1-2, in the Clarendon Plato Series of Oxford University Press, and she is at work on the next volume, which will cover Books 3, 4, and 5. Her latest book is a new translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (abridged, with notes for the general reader) in the series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers (Princeton University Press).
Her online open-access courses, Plato and his Predecessors and Aristotle and his Successors are free and open to the public.