Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on the Books of Aristotle's Ethics - Volume V - Manuel de Góis

Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on Aristotle’s Ethics, Volume V by Manuel de Góis is a scholastic Aristotelian commentary that examines Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics within the Coimbra Jesuit tradition. It forms part of the Conimbricenses series, which systematized Aristotelian philosophy for academic instruction in the late Scholastic period.

A central concern of the volume is moral philosophy as grounded in human nature and rational action. Góis analyzes Aristotle’s account of happiness (eudaimonia), the structure of moral virtue, the role of habit in forming character, and the distinction between intellectual and moral virtues.

The work also addresses questions of moral choice, prudence, justice, and the regulation of the passions, while clarifying Aristotelian arguments through scholastic methods of definition and distinction. Overall, it provides a systematic exposition of ethical philosophy within the Aristotelian and Jesuit intellectual tradition.