The conversation around Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics was really good. It covers a number of topics that have found new life in recent economics such as the definition of happiness, the extent to which public policy should be concerned with creating happiness as opposed to pleasure, the role of self-control in creating happiness and so on.
For anyone who is interested, on Monday July 14th at 7pm we will discuss Aristotles Politics at the same venue, Ashton's in Clonskeagh. A copy of the book is below from the mit archive.
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html
If you're not barred from Ashton's in the meantime. Dey must be sick of yiz. Why can't you go in and start a fight like normal people do in a pub?
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