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This is a book summary of The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.
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📚 CHAPTERS
0:00 - Introduction
1:23 - Top 3 Lessons
1:56 - Lesson 1: Aim to achieve a state of eudaimonia, instead of conventional happiness.
3:27 - Lesson 2: Arete, or virtue, is accomplished through a lifetime of work.
5:54 - Lesson 3: Strive to become magnanimous and thus, do honorable things in your life.
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The Nicomachean Ethics is a historically important text compiling Aristotle’s extensive discussion of existential questions concerning happiness, ethics, friendship, knowledge, pleasure, virtue, and even society at large.
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