The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conf…

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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them. ✨ Aristotle (1996). The Nicomachean Ethics, p.13, Wordsworth Editions
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them. ✨ Aristotle (1996). The Nicomachean Ethics, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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