Aristotle acknowledges that our good or bad fortune can play a part in determining our happiness; for example, he acknowledges that happiness can be affected by such factors as our material ...

In the Ethics, Aristotle (d. 322 BCE) tries to discover what is "the supreme good for man," that is, what is the best way to lead our life and give it meaning. For Aristotle, a thing is most ...

In it, she lays out Aristotle’s thinking on friendship. One point stood out to me as particularly useful in contemporary times. Most of us think of friendship as a single category.

In 1985, Lyubomirsky left for college at Harvard, where, her adviser reminded her years later, she frequently brought up the topic of happiness, even though his expertise was in the social ...