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Arguably (a word always to be assumed when an interpretation of Aristotle is asserted), two aspects of Aristotle’s ethics set him apart from Socrates and Plato: an emphasis on virtuous activity as opposed, on the one hand, to merely possessing the virtue, and, on the other, to other candidates as components of happiness, such as pleasure. For Arist

Perhaps their luck was merely that magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren’t nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations, like sex and death and the next meal.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

It is sometimes said that Aristotle’s ethical views are mere Athenian common sense dressed in philosophical garb.

For just as the good - the doing well - of a flute-player, a sculptor or any practitioner of a skill, or generally whatever has some characteristic activity or action, is thought to lie in its characteristic activity, so the same would seem to be true of a human being, if indeed he has a characteristic activity. Well, do the carpenter and the tanne