Perhaps the most famous proponent of the second path was the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He defined happiness as eudaemonia, which means “good spirit.” To us moderns, this might sound ...

For Aristotle, ethics was centrally concerned with how to live a good life: a flourishing existence ... fighting, or talking with food in one’s mouth. A search for what we might call ...

And I was talking to students, saying, why didn’t you want to take the philosophy class? I mean, these are the great questions in life. What is happiness? What is the good life? How does God ...

One of the most famous quotes in American history comes from the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that “Life, Liberty ... philosophers—particularly Aristotle—contemplated ...