# Nicomachean Ethics

by [Aristotle](https://localbooks.app/authors/aristotle)

- Genres: [政治](https://localbooks.app/genres/society/politics), [随笔](https://localbooks.app/genres/biography-memoir/essays)
- Set in: [雅典, Attica, 希腊](https://localbooks.app/places/gr/attica/athens)
- Audience: Adult

## Description

Aristotle asks what a good human life actually consists of and answers with habits rather than rules: courage, generosity and good judgment built up by practice. Drawn from his lectures at the Lyceum in Athens, it ends with long, warm books on friendship and on the life of the mind.

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