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Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation 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 carefully... Read More about How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics--the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories Aristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories--whether novels, short fiction, plays, scr... Read More about How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

A new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all timeA Penguin Classic Aristotle’s classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Reacting against Plato’s absolutism, Aristotle insi... Read More about The Nicomachean Ethics

What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times--the ancient Greeks When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with aston... Read More about How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve   Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted ... Read More about The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)

A selection of writings on how to achieve a more ethical society and way of life, from one of Ancient history's most celebrated thinkersHow can one live well in the world? What does it mean to be happy? In this selection from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle probes the nature of happiness and virtu... Read More about One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas)