The Eudemian Ethics (Greek: Ἠθικὰ Εὐδήμεια; Latin: Ethica Eudemia[1] or De moribus ad Eudemum) is a work of philosophy by Aristotle.
It is named for Eudemus of Rhodes, a pupil of Aristotle who may also have had a hand in editing the final work.
The translator for the Loeb edition, Harris Rackham, states in the Introduction to that edition that "in some places The Eudemian Ethics is fuller in expression or more discursive than The Nicomachean Ethics."
Compared to the Nicomachean Ethics, Rackham mentions, for example in Book III, which discusses the virtues and some minor graces of character: Book VII is concerning friendship, discussed in greater length and detail in the Nicomachean Ethics than it is here.
[4] This opinion is also supported by British philosopher Anthony Kenny,[5][6] that the complete eight-book of Eudemian Ethics was the standard text on Aristotelian ethics for over four hundred years until the time of Aspasius, Aristotle commentator in the first half of second century AD.