In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explains what virtue is and how it is acquired. He describes and defines the various virtues, and also discusses the kind of moral education and habit-formation ...

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was the most important quality a person could have, and being virtuous was the absolute goal ...

It’s easy to look down on self-help books, but believe it or not the genre is as old as Athens. The word “therapy” comes from therapeia, the ancient Greek word for “healing.” It treated both the body ...

The monumental debate between Democritus and Aristotle shaped 2,000 years of science and revolutionized our understanding of ...