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After discussing philosophical contemplation as the highest human good, Aristotle backtracks slightly to argue for the importance of law within the human realm. Again, this doesn’t have to be read as a contradiction. While Aristotle maintains that study is the most godlike pursuit and the most helpful for an unfettered pursuit of virtue, he is ever attentive to earthly realities—namely the fact that most people don’t have a taste for such an exalted lifestyle. Most average people, in fact, aren’t even responsive to arguments trying to commend the goodness of virtue. This is unsurprising, since to develop a taste for…