What I’ve tried to show in this book is that Greek philosophy offers us not one model of the good life, but several. All of them follow Steps 1, 2 and 3 of the Socratic tradition – we can know ourselves, we can change ourselves, we can create new habits of thinking, feeling and behaving. They all agree on Step 4 – that philosophy can help us live better lives. But they all take Step 4 in quite different directions, when it comes to defining the good life and defining our relationship to society and to God. These philosophies involve different value judgements that the individual must make for
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