How to Flourish, Aristotle
How to Flourish, Aristotle
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How to Flourish
An Ancient Guide to Living Well

Author: Aristotle, Susan Sauve Meyer, Susan Sauve Meyer

Narrator: Hannibal Hills

Unabridged: 2 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2023

Synopsis

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a colloquial new translation by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before.

For Aristotle, flourishing involves becoming a good person through practice, and having a life of the mind. To that end, he draws vivid portraits of virtuous and vicious characters and offers sound practical advice about everything from eating and drinking to managing money, controlling anger, getting along with others, and telling jokes. He also distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the universe and our relation to the divine.

Omitting Aristotle's digressions and repetitions and overly technical passages, How to Flourish provides connecting commentary that allows listeners to follow the continuous line of his thought. The result is an inviting and lively version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead a good life.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Connor on April 25, 2025

Very good read! A lot of good quotes to take and ideas to think about. Definitely read more than one time to get the full effect of the book. Take what you understand and inquire what you do not.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 10, 2024

An abridged edition of the Nicomachean Ethics. Will serve as a useful resource.......more

Goodreads review by Mitchell on August 31, 2024

A great condensed version of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, with an interesting perspective of what truly may bring the human life “happiness.” The many concepts that may have influenced later Biblical interpretations of virtues were particularly interesting to note, and much more flushed out. Just......more

Goodreads review by Mike on January 28, 2025

Just an abridged version of the nicomachean ethics.......more

Goodreads review by Arthur on March 02, 2025

Some books should be read like you drink a slow, rich espresso: sipping attentively, allowing the flavors to linger. "How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well" is such a book. It takes you to the core of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, but packaged in a way that doesn't shout "I AM IMPORTANT......more

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