How to flourish with Aristotle

[Based on How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well, by Aristotle, translated by Susan Sauvé Meyer. Full book series here.]

The big question in philosophy that started with Socrates was: how should we live? In Ancient Greek, a life that goes well was called eudaimonic. It’s a tricky word to translate, but positive psychologists and even policy makers now use it, because they realize that just counting a country’s GDP doesn’t tell us much about how happy people are.

According to the ancient ...