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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a treatise on human happiness; it can teach us how to be happy. Aristotle's account of happiness has been powerfully influential and can still help us understand what we, as human beings, need in order to be happy. What makes people happy? How do people become unhappy? How is it possible to make mistakes about happiness?

For Aristotle human happiness is closely connected to virtue and virtue is closely connected to reason. If we make rational decisions, we act well or virtuously, and (according to Aristotle's philosophy) this will lead us ultimately to happiness. Aristotle is one of the foremost thinkers on the subject of happiness and his philosophy has, of course, influenced generations of other philosophers. This lecture will help you understand Aristotle's philosophy and particularly the relationship between reason, happiness, and virtue.

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Aristotle's Philosophy of Virtue: Habit and the Mean
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