Tag: 20 Dec 2024

  • Hans Ruin on Book X of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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    On the December 20, between 10:00-12:00, Hans Ruin will introduce book X of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and this semester’s last Aristotle session. As is well known, this book highlights an apparent tension in Aristotle’s ethics between thinking and acting, particularly concerning the nature of happiness and its relationship to virtue. Aristotle argues that true happiness…