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What I'm going to be giving in this first lecture is a general sketch of Aristotle's ethics.

And then later in the other lectures, we'll see how friendship fits into it.

Okay. So, in the ethics, which maybe you had a chance to take a look at, Aristotle begins by telling us what the science of ethics is about.

And a science here means something like an organized body of knowledge. So don't be put off by the word science.

It's not a science like, well, maybe it's a science like chemistry, but modern people wouldn't call it word science. It's not a science-like, well, maybe it's a science-like chemistry,

but modern people wouldn't call it a science, but it's an organized body of knowledge.

Now, you might think that morality or ethics covers a part of life.

So you might think that life is a big,

complicated affair,

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