More important than spouses, kids, or money. In his philosophical text Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle maintained that true friendship is essential for eudaimonia, a Greek word that is typically ...

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

Professor Nichols studies Greek political philosophy, the history of political thought, and “politics, literature and film,” including ... Piety and Politics in Aristote’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (Notre ...

Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (d. 323 BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Greek means something like “free speech” or “full expression ...

For years, the alleged words of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle purporting to define excellence as a practice have circulated on the internet. "We're what we repeatedly do," the supposed quote ...