In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explains what virtue is and how it is acquired. He describes and defines the various virtues, and also discusses the kind of moral education and habit-formation ...

Aristotle, a pivotal Greek philosopher born in Stagira in 384 BC , studied at Plato's Academy and tutored Alexander the Great. He emphasized observation and logic, classifying nature and laying ...

A: He's a giant among thinkers whose thought addresses fundamental questions of human life — What qualities make a good person? Do we have a purpose? What is the character of human existence? - that ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

In Book 10 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle outlines the nature of happiness, which, he reminds us, is the “end of living" or purpose of life. Happiness, he says, is not a disposition but an ...

Darrin Walsh argues that, despite Rand's affection for Aristotle, her ethics is more in the modern, rather than the Aristotelian, tradition. Aristotle's Nicomachean Hthics was never intended as a ...

Virtue ethics, rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, emphasises the development of individual character and the cultivation of virtues as central to moral conduct. In the context of business ethics, this ...