BookAges 16–18
Nicomachean Ethics (selections)
Aristotle
ClassicalEuropean
Books I, II, VIII, X at minimum. The book on virtue and friendship and the good life.
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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter 1