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.
-Self-sufficiency, for Aristotle, is

• A) counted as one good thing among others.
• B) includes one's ancestors, descendants, and friends of friends.
• C) what would make someone sufficient in isolation.
• D) what makes life desirable and lacking in nothing.

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