Aristotle’s Principles For a Good Life
What it means to live well
Who doesn’t want to live a good life? Everyone wants to have a happy, fulfilling and meaningful existence.
Yet somehow, this is something many of us struggle with: we get caught up in the trivialities of everyday life. The endless cycle of work-stress-recover-repeat leaves little time for anything else. The pressures of modern life seem to get in the way of living the good life.
As technology changes how we work, learn, play, and socialise — finding purpose and meaning in our lives becomes increasingly important.
What is the good life? Great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Seneca all proposed their own answers to these questions.
However, perhaps the most famous theory of the good life comes from Aristotle, who proposed that the good life is one of virtue and morality. In other words, a good life is one where you strive to be kind and ethical in all your actions.
That’s not to say that other philosophies don’t also have some truth to them; they are just more specific than Aristotle’s universal theory as to what constitutes a good life.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived from 384 to 322 B.C. He is widely considered one of the most influential thinkers in Western history…
