Title: Frustrating and near useless
Product review: This translation of Aristotle's Ethics is simply useless to the modern reader. Welldon's translation is archaic and his footnotes create more confusion than they resolve - some are almost entirely in Greek. The chapters are marked in the wrong places, making comparisons between translations or references in critical essays a chore to find. After getting to Book IV (again, re-reading after the Kindle version), I finally found a copy ofNicomachean Ethics: Aristotleat my library, which is a wonderful translation.I wasted a lot of time puzzling over the words in Welldon's translation. As I was re-re-reading the same books in Oswald's translation, light bulbs were going off in my head and Aristotle's meaning became more clear with less work. Perhaps this book was better received in the 20's, or whenever it was originally publish, but now it is so lacking in areté that one must wonder if it's still published to prove Aristotle's point on the relativity of goodness.
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