The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 7月7日 03時00分

For Aristotle, ethics was centrally concerned with how to live a good life: a flourishing existence was also a virtuous one. The Nicomachean Ethics, one of his treatises, takes this flourishing as its central theme—but readers looking for straightforward guidance will find it full of disappointments. The book is desperately short on practical advice; more of it is about what it means to be good than about how one becomes good. And then much of what it says can sound rather obvious, or inert. Flourishing is the ultimate goal of human life; a flourishing life is one that is lived in accord with the various “virtues” of the character and intellect; a flourishing life also calls for friendships with good people and a certain measure of good fortune in the way of a decent income, health, and looks. But if we are disappointed in Aristotle’s ethics, it may tell us more about ourselves than it does about the philosopher. At the link in our bio, read more about what Aristotle’s work can—or can’t—teach us today. Illustration by Barry Blitt.

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