Tag: Aristotle

Ancient Greek philosopher (384–322 BC), pupil of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, whose work underpins much of Western thinking about the good life. In the Nicomachean Ethics he argued that the aim of human life is eudaimonia — flourishing — achieved not through pleasure but through the cultivation of virtue as a habit, the famous "golden mean" between excess and deficiency. This makes him the deep ancestor of the blog's preoccupation with happiness, ethics, and the habits that compound into character, and a key influence on later thinkers from the Stoics to modern positive psychology. His broader corpus — logic, biology, politics, metaphysics — made him for centuries simply "the Philosopher."

Wikipedia →