Nicomachean Ethics
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Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle
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    The Nature and Pursuit of Happiness
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    Virtues and the Mean
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    Virtue and Community Life
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    The Political Life vs. the Contemplative Life
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In Nicomachean Ethics, the city takes on several layers of symbolic significance. Because Aristotle is concerned both with the individual’s cultivation of virtue and the community’s, he sometimes draws comparisons between the human soul…

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