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...notions of honor and character to most Harvard students sound old-fashioned, if not completely absurd. Yet, at one point, such concerns formed the center of a truly moral education. Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics listed “greatness of soul,” or “magnanimity,” among the principal moral virtues—as the “crown” of the virtues, in fact, without which the other moral virtues cannot properly exist. For one who exemplifies all the moral virtues—an ideal toward which men of a previous...
...bushel of spilt chestnuts. A collar, studded with amethysts and other gems of some mysterious allegorical import, encircled the creature’s neck; it read, “Tatiana.” One paw lay upon an elaborately bound volume: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics.” Setting down his brush for a moment, Jacques approached the tableau. He set a bronze sextant at The Stable Boy’s right foot. Then, after a moment’s consideration, he replaced the pomegranate with half a melon. “What the hell...
...crucial ability because it allows us to exercise some self-control. The idea is not to repress feeling (the reaction that has made psychoanalysts rich) but rather to do what Aristotle considered the hard work of the will. "Anyone can become angry--that is easy," he wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics. "But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--this is not easy...
...books. I certainly would have no problem," Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes says. "There are books that have made a very major impact on Western thinking: Locke's two books on human understanding and government, Rousseau's Social Contract, Mills On Liberty, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics...and the Bible," to name...
...University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics & Politics, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, St. Augustine's City of God, Aquinas' Treatise on God & Treatise on Man, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Works, Pascal's Meditations, Tolstoy's War & Peace. He did not list the Bible, explaining, "I assume...