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Aristotle One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2020

Paperback

128

Light

301494

978-0-241-47286-6

0-241-47286-5

Ethics & moral philosophy

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'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' How can one live well in the world? What does it mean to be happy? In this selection from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle probes the nature of happiness and virtue in a quest to divine an ethical value system. Exploring ideas of community, responsibility, courage, friendship, agency, reasoning, desire and pleasure, these are some of the most profound and lasting ancient writings on the self to have influenced Western thought.

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