El camí d'Aristòtil

In the fourth century a. C., Aristotle founds his school in Athens, a much improved version of the Platonic Academy, where he himself studied in his youth. From that authentic training center for future classical thinkers, he knew how to exert an inestimable influence. Aristotle's path bears witness to how one school of thought can help us achieve eudaimonia, the happiness that comes from fully realizing our potential. Aristotle's teachings do not expire, the author tells us. The "path" invites slow reflection, contemplation (true praise of free time!), to analyze relationships with others (love, friendship, community), to ask ourselves what we have in common with a thinker of the ancient Greece, to understand and improve our communication and to face death with serenity. Extensively tracing the work of Aristotle, inserted in the context of the main episodes of his biography, Edith Hall offers here an update on Aristotelian thought along with an interesting and original proposal: use it today, two thousand four hundred years later, to change our lives.