Plato, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Murdoch, Mill, James, Baldwin, Du Bois "The Good Life Method" has a two-part way of getting readers to work on their own answers.

A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander. Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: Plato devoted three books to ...

1. Courage Aristotle wrote about courage in the context of the willingness to sacrifice one’s life, such as in war. Whether he would recognize the virtue in our modern settings is hard to guess ...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a classic work of philosophy, especially in virtue ethics. I hope this video can help guide you through the book and help you read it for yourself. Topics include ...

Plato argued the former; his student Aristotle, the latter. So which is your view, and how does that guide the way you live? ... Arthur C. Brooks: Aristotle’s 10 rules for a good life.

Plato's Academy was the precursor of the modern-day university, and his teachings, ... They provide universal principles that can act as guidelines for how to live a good life.

Aristotle was seventeen when he left his native land for Athens, where he evidently encountered Plato and his Academy—the legendary circle of scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers. When ...

A bust of Plato in the Long Room of the old library that houses 200,000 of Trinity College’s oldest books in Ireland on September 14, 2018. (Reuters / Clodagh Kilcoyne) By signing up, you ...