Book · 350 BC · Nonfiction

The Nicomachean Ethics

Name: The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 329 pages

★ 7.6 editorial score

Everyone wants to be happy. Aristotle's answer is that happiness is not a feeling but a life of acting well, and that you become brave only by doing brave things.

Genre

Practical philosophy Moral philosophy Philosophy

Subject

Morality Ethics Virtue

Time

350 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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