Aristotle | on the Good Life

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Aristotle | On the Good Life
In this excerpt from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores what it means to lead a good life and how this is related to pleasure, pain, virtue, and character. He concludes that happiness, or pleasure, is the chief good, or end goal, of a well-lived life.
-For Aristotle, the chief good must NOT be

• A) final.
• B) desirable in itself.
• C) desired for the sake of something else.
• D) chosen for its own sake.

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