A review by sharpenanother
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

4.0

There are parts of this that I still need to wrap my head around, but I enjoyed most of the parts I could understand. The main thing that I took away is that happiness is the ultimate human good and that we live a happy life by living according a set of virtues in thoughts and character. The argument I agreed the most with was that virtue lies at the mean of two extremes, like courage is between cowardice and recklessness. And moderation doesn't mean, say, that you never get angry, but that you're angry only when it's called for. The distinction between 'incontinence' and intemperance was interesting. One thing I really didn't understand was how pleasure is an activity, not a state. I'll have to come back to parts of the book later.