What makes a good life? Existentialists believed we should embrace freedom and authenticity

  • Written by: Oscar Davis, Indigenous Fellow - Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University

How do we live good, fulfilling lives?

Aristotle first took on this question in his Nicomachean Ethics – arguably the first time anyone in Western intellectual history had focused on the subject as a standalone question.

He formulated a teleological response to the question of how we ought to live. Aristotle proposed, in other words, an...

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