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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper examines the influence of the analysis of economic exchange in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, v, on subsequen economic theorizing.

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: ...

When we try to act morally, we often feel lost, as if goodness is an abstract concept outside of ourselves, something we must chase. It seems like a distant ideal—an external entity we need to conform ...

Aristotle (384-322BC) explored these almost two and a half thousand years ago in what became known as his Nicomachean Ethics. His audience then were the elite in Athens as, he argued, if they knew how ...