Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
The Nicomachean Ethics sets out in a systematic way to answer the question, “What is the good life?” Aristotle wrote it not for scholars, not for other professional philosophers, but for everybody. He took the view that if a person applied practical wisdom to the right course of action in a given circumstance, he would achieve the good life.
Why The Nicomachean Ethics?
The Nicomachean Ethics sets out in a systematic way to answer the question, “What is the good life? ” Aristotle wrote it not for scholars, not for other professional philosophers, but for everybody. He took the view that if a person applied practical wisdom to the right course of action in a given circumstance, he would achieve the good. And I like the fact that, as Socrates had done before him, he was thinking about a theory of the good life in terms of what is practical and reasonable. In writing some of my own books for a general readership, I’ve tried to do something along these lines.
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Professor AC Grayling is an English philosopher. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College at Oxford University. Grayling is the author of around 30 books, including What is Good? and most recently The Good Book: A Secular Bible. In 2011 he founded the New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London
