Aristotle's foundational treatise on ethics — arguing that the good life (eudaimonia, flourishing) consists of virtuous activity in accordance with reason — that virtues are habits cultivated through practice rather than rules to follow — and that the good life requires external goods and social context.
Creates virtue ethics — the Nicomachean Ethics' account of the virtues (as mean states between excess and deficiency), practical wisdom (phronesis), and the relationship between individual flourishing and political community is the foundational document of virtue ethics and the most sophisticated ancient account of moral psychology.
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