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“The good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.”

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Aristotle opens his ethics by putting the good life in the category of things done rather than things possessed or merely known. The rest of the book is an argument about what makes a human activity well performed.

Source: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

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