Project Sherlock

From the archive · Saturday, 15 August 2026

The daily pick

One work a day, drawn from the 198 works in the library with a copy you can open — the same one for everybody, and a different one tomorrow.

Book340 BCE

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

The good life is activity in accordance with virtue, and virtue is a disposition trained by habit rather than taught by rule.

What it assumes

no Greek and no prior Aristotle, though knowing that eudaimonia means flourishing saves early confusion

Level
Advanced
Access
Free
Length
about 7.5 hours to read
Copy
link checked 17 Sept 2026

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