Hugh Macilwain Last / Manuscript Aristotle’s Nikomachean Ethics Notes

Description: [Manuscript] "Aristotle's Nikomachean Ethics. Notes taken from lectures by H.H. Joachim" Author: Last, Hugh Macilwain (1894-1957) Title: [Manuscript] "Aristotle's Nikomachean Ethics. Notes taken from lectures by H.H. Joachim" Description: Hardcover. [Oxford: 1916-1917]. Small quarto, three parts in one: 190 leaves. Manuscript in ink on the rectos, with printed outlines inserted where appropriate. The text is very clean and legible. Full blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The endpapers are foxed. Some minor dampstaining to the rear board, which is bowing a bit. The spine is darkened a touch, with general edgewear to the boards.Hugh Last's manuscript notes on Harold Henry Joachim's lectures on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, delivered at Merton College between Michaelmas Term 1916 and Summer Term 1917. Presented in three parts, the third series of lectures was delivered by Professor Joachim with John Alexander Smith. According to The Classical Review, these lectures "were given regularly at Oxford between 1902 and 1917." Joachim's text was edited after his death by D.A. Rees and published by the Oxford University Press in 1950.Now identified with the later days of the British idealist movement, Harold H. Joachim (1868-1938) "lectured on moral philosophy at St. Andrews University from 1892 to 1894, when he returned to Balliol as lecturer in philosophy under J.A. Smith. In 1897 he succeeded William Wallace as fellow and tutor in philosophy at Merton. In 1919 he was appointed to the Wykeham professorship of logic in succession to J. Cook Wilson, and held the chair until his retirement in 1935 [...] Mr. T.S. Eliot has acknowledged a great debt [...] None of Joachim's contemporaries ranked higher than he either as a Spinozist or as a textual critic and interpreter of Aristotle" (DNB).According to a handwritten note on the front pastedown, this manuscript was given to another scholar at St. John's College, where Hugh Last was appointed a fellow in 1919. His interest in the history of Ancient Rome had been sparked at school by the classical historian T. Rice Holmes, who taught at St Paul's, and continued at Lincoln under William Warde Fowler. His interests broadened into related spheres such as ancient Oriental history. In 1927, Last was appointed as university lecturer in Roman history, and became Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1936, a post that carried with it a fellowship at Brasenose College. During the Second World War, he worked at the British codebreaking center at Bletchley Park.Provenance: from the library of Paul Naiditch, longtime curator of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Seller ID: 75763 Subject: Philosophy Established in 1981, Johnson Rare Books & Archives offers a wide array of materials from fine first editions to holographic letters, vernacular photography, archives, and other cultural resources. Our bricks and mortar location in downtown Covina, The Book Shop, is located about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. The shop is open six days a week and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian. As proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), we uphold our association's code of ethics. Terms All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available. We offer combined shipping on multiple orders. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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