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Aristotle minus the objective morality part

I want to read Aristotle’s metaphysics next becuase I just finished Nicomacean Ethics and it was one of the most enlightening reads I’ve ever experienced, but I don’t think my edition is worth a shit really. I have the Ann Arbor edition which doesn’t have any footnotes or endnotes and just has a half-assed index of technical terms which don’t even explain the term sufficiently half of the time. Also, the translation seems to be lacking in clarity most of the time and it’s just overall disappointing in contrast from the excellence of my translation of Nicomacean Ethics. Should I drop $30 and get the better translation with footnotes from Hackett, or should I try to take this one on the chin and read it anyway?

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But Anon wouldn’t it make little sense to deprive a man of his own goodness? When a man is just we call him just and when a man is pious we call him pious becuase it is a conscious descision on his part and he wills it, and these concepts (piety and justice) are good in themselves so when we call a man thus we are calling him good, not accidentally but purposefully of his own merit. So I agree with you that goodness has to descend from god, however goodness can be man’s and it makes little sense to refuse to call a man good when he clearly acts like it.