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Aristotle's Highest Good #45

What do we actually want from life?

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Dr Andreas Matthias
Nov 30, 2020
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There is a passage (Nicomachean Ethics, Book I) where Aristotle is concerned with finding out what “the good” is. Not any good, but the highest good.

So he looks at the various sciences and arts, and …

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