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The achievement of happiness, according to Aristotle, is the end goal of every man. His reasoning is thus: All human activities are done in order to attain something that is good. We don’t do something because we think it will be bad for us. In addition, most of these activities are not the main objective,

By Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom While the works of Aristotle are numerous, detailed, and profound in their own ways, it is arguable that the philosopher’s most notable contributions are in the realm of Ethics. It was once believed that all you really needed to know about Western philosophy could be found within the

Last time we left off with Plato’s rather illusive explanation of moral virtue and the process of attaining it. It was through the early dialogue The Meno that we get a glimpse of Plato’s idea of virtue. Although, a glimpse is perhaps all that we are able the see. Plato’s dialogue, as is common, leaves