(Marsilius is for example sometimes said to have influenced the English political reformer Thomas Cromwell.) Other more " Averroist" Aristotelians such as Marsilius of Padua were also influential. The most important version of this synthesis was that of Thomas Aquinas. In the Middle Ages, a synthesis between Aristotelian ethics and Christian theology became widespread in Europe, as introduced by Albertus Magnus. While various philosophers influenced Christendom since its earliest times, in Western Europe, Aristotle became "the Philosopher" (for example, this is how he is referred to in the works of Thomas Aquinas). As such, it was of great significance in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology. It had an important influence on the European Middle Ages, and was one of the core works of medieval philosophy. The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important works of philosophy. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community. It is connected to Aristotle's other practical work, Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good, through the creation and maintenance of social institutions that promote human flourishing.
It is not merely an investigation about what good consists of, but hopes to be of practical help in achieving the good. Ethics, Aristotle says, is practical rather than theoretical, in the Aristotelian senses of these terms. In Aristotle's Metaphysics, he describes how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, turned philosophy to human questions, whereas pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, about how men should best live. The work plays a pre-eminent role in explaining Aristotelian ethics. : I.2 It consists of ten books or scrolls, and is closely related to Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics. The Nicomachean Ethics ( / ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n/ / ˌ n ɪ k ə m ə ˈ k i ə n/ Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. First page of a 1566 edition of the Nicomachean Ethics in Greek and Latin
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