Sublime

Aristotle was interested in how we might be good, rather than know goodness. Thus when he taught ethics, his aim was to improve the lives of his pupils at a practical, everyday level. Like Plato, he saw the natural aim of human life, and the best condition of the soul, as eudaimonia, which is roughly synonymous with happiness, or more accurately ‘f

Aristote fait reposer son éthique sur une théorie biologique de la nature humaine, dans laquelle il affirme que notre psyché a une composante rationnelle et une composante irrationnelle. Elle est aussi sociale, politique et spirituelle. Une vie de bien est une vie qui satisfait cette nature et nous guide vers le bonheur et l’accomplissement.

Aristotle was born at Stagira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, some time later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and establish