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 ...

Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: Plato devoted three books to friendship and to love (the Lysis, the Phædrus, and the Symposium), and in Book 8 of ...

What did it take to write "The Good Life Method?" A lot of time teaching in a college classroom, ample feedback from students, and more than 14 different philosophical views.

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’s pupil Aristotle agreed that science provides an account of what we see but diverged from his teacher’s argument that an unchanging ideal was the true essence of things.

July 1, 2019 The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy Plato, Hippocrates, and Aristotle laid the foundations on which centuries of sexism were built.

Nikhil Krishnan reviews “How to Flourish,” an abridged edition of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, edited and translated by Susan Sauvé Meyer.

I am driving home from the gym, listening to satellite radio, not paying very close attention. Suddenly Tony Bennett's "The Good Life" cuts bel canto through the summer afternoon malaise. A lot of ...