What can we learn from Aristotle in a day when the question, “What is a good life?” tends to provoke ridicule rather than reflection? According to AEI scholar Leon Kass, Aristotle’s “Nicomachean ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article resolves some difficulties with Aristotle’s discussion of the choice-worthy (haireton). Nicomachean Ethics I posits goods that ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

There are fields of research on NE which still need attention: the edition of the text the style and rhetorical and logical instruments employed by Aristotle in setting out his position. After ...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a classic work of philosophy, especially in virtue ethics. I hope this video can help guide you through the book and help you read it for yourself. Topics include ...

Finding the good life requires tolerance of human variety. In his great treatise on how to achieve happiness, the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle compares our attempts to live good lives to an archer's ...

Source: Pixabay/aszak/Public domain. A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: ...

The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle is considered one of the greatest thinkers in the world, and his conception of happiness remains strikingly relevant today. The questions Aristotle posed are ...