Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean
Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human
flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many
readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully abridged version
of the entire work in a highly readable and colloquial new translation
by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how
to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before.
For Aristotle, flourishing involves becoming a good person through
practice, and having a life of the mind. To that end, he draws vivid
portraits of virtuous and vicious characters and offers sound practical
advice about everything from eating and drinking to managing money,
controlling anger, getting along with others, and telling jokes. He also
distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to
flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our
place in the universe and our relation to the divine.
Omitting Aristotle's digressions and repetitions and overly technical
passages, How to Flourish provides connecting commentary that allows
readers to follow the continuous line of his thought; it also features
the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an inviting and lively
version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead a good life.
