Auguste Meyrat on the Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin, Third Edition, at University Bookman.
"Aristotle does not speak in maxims or paradoxes, nor does he tell pithy parables or analects. He uses the dry language of definitions, proofs, qualifiers, and analogies. What he loses in emotion and engagement, he gains in clarity and discipline. While much of this style has to do with the fact that all of his extant works are refined lecture notes, not completed writings intended for the public, the effect of reading them is the same: approaching all things with a more logical, disinterested lens."
See Aristotle, Works, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volumes 8-9, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volumes 7-8.
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