What can we learn from Aristotle in a day when the question, “What is a good life?” tends to provoke ridicule rather than reflection? According to AEI scholar Leon Kass, Aristotle’s “Nicomachean ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

Finding the good life requires tolerance of human variety. In his great treatise on how to achieve happiness, the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle compares our attempts to live good lives to an archer's ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly journal for the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought ...

Since its founding in 1880 by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, The American Journal of Philology has helped to shape American classical scholarship. Today The Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as ...