But what is happiness? For Aristotle, it is by understanding the distinctive function of a thing that one can understand its essence. Thus, one cannot understand what it is to be a gardener unless ...

From Aristotle’s belief in becoming, we can understand how he derived his belief in our essential nature. Our essence is an evolving one, as we change as people, he thought. You are who you are ...

Now the challenge seems clear: to reclaim a deeper, more demanding vision of what it means to live well in a fractured world — and restore happiness to its proper scale. Aristotle, in the fourth ...

In his Nicomachean Ethics, the philosopher Aristotle tries to discover what is ‘the supreme good for man’, that is, what is the best way to lead our life and give it meaning. For Aristotle, a ...