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Nicomachean Ethics

What Aristotle taught me this summer
Reflections on our read-along of the Nicomachean Ethics
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The Pleasures of Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics, Book X
The final book.
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Thick as Thieves | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX
If you aren’t trust-worthy, you can’t be trusted. And friendship requires trust, and so friendship requires trust-worthiness, and trust-worthiness…
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Three Forms of Friendship | Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII
Friendship, for Aristotle, is one of the necessary components of a good life; it is what makes life worth living.
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Exercising Self-Restraint | Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII
Today, we continue our read-along of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
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Dear Prudence | Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI
Deliberation, science, wisdom, oh my!
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Justice as a Virtue | Nicomachean Ethics, Book V
Today, we continue our read-along of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
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On magnificence (and many other virtues) | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV
The great-souled man, public art and magnificence, shame, and so on.
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So that we may become good | Nicomachean Ethics, Book II
Today we continue our read-along of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
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Happiness is an Activity | Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
Our read-along continues, now with some text from Aristotle. Politics and contemplation, the methodology of the Nicomachean Ethics, and teleological…
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How to read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
The beginning of our series on the Nicomachean Ethics, plus a small announcement at the end.
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