Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle’s Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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Birth: | 12th February, 1926 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Writer |
Charles Lincoln Van Doren is an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he confessed before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty One.
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