"We're what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" may have been attributed to Aristotle to lend it ...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives this example of how the process works: “By abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain ...

Still, if Aristotle’s ethics is to be sold as a work of what we call self-help, we have to ask: How helpful is it? We know only a few things about the man who claimed to know how to flourish.

As Aristotle wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics, “If it is better to be happy as a result of one’s own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how ...

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 ...

Aristotle’s repugnant doctrine has been deployed for vicious purposes, for example in antebellum America. Yet, it is useful for AI ethics, insofar as ancient slavery was a premodern prototype of ...