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A New Translation of the Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle
Year
2011
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Read Books Ltd.
Summary
Aristotle is indisputably of central importance to the development of philosophical and scientific thought in the western world. Here he refers to three types of lives, the common life, the political life, and the contemplative life, to which he assigns the highest order. Certainly, this is the most difficult life. Similar to Socrates, Aristotle believed that 'the unexamined life is a life not worth living.'