Tag: Ancient Greek Philosophy

Happiness Is a Public Practice: Rereading the Nicomachean Ethics

Estimated reading time: about 19 minutes A serious Nicomachean Ethics interpretation has to begin by discarding two reassuring reductions: that…

The Mean in Its Proper Place: Aristotle’s Doctrine in Book II

The “Doctrine of the Mean” is not a separate Aristotelian essay. The Doctrine of the Mean in Nicomachean Ethics is…