Jan 22, 2021
5 min read
The Shoemaker and the General
Aristotle on cherishing adversity
“If activities are,” Aristotle says in the Nicomachean Ethics, “what gives life its character, no happy man can become miserable; for he will never do the acts that are hateful and mean.”
Welcome back to our year-long experiment of living the great theories of happiness in our everyday lives. Today, we look at how the wise person…
