Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, delivered as lectures to his students at his Lyceum over 2,000 years ago, provide a profound examination of human nature and the ends to which our conduct should be directed. Virtue is at the heart of his practical view of happiness (eudaimonia) as the point of life.

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