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Perspective voyage · 4th century BCE

Aristotle — Activity across a life, not a passing mood

Is a good life a happy feeling, or a life of acting well in accordance with excellence?

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What makes a life go well?

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Aristotle established his school at the Lyceum in Athens and taught there, but that activity evidence does not establish the exact composition place of the Nicomachean Ethics.

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  • Aristotle’s Lyceum

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    Locator: Athens Lyceum teaching activity

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335 BCE · Approximately 335 BCE

Aristotle establishes his school and teaches at the Lyceum in Athens; this activity site is not an exact composition place for the work.

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330 BCE · Approximately 4th century BCE

The Nicomachean Ethics distinguishes activity, habituation, a complete life, and external conditions; no exact composition city is inferred.

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