Fortunately there are other ways of thinking about the good life. In ancient Greece and China there were ethical traditions that made no reference to what is nowadays called morality. For the Greeks, the good life was living according to dike – your nature and its place in the scheme of things. For the Chinese, it meant living according to tao – the way of the universe, as manifest in your own nature. There are many differences between these ancient kinds of ethics. But it is what they have in common that is most useful to us today. These ways of thinking do not feature ‘morality’, because
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