The Peripatetic tradition · 384–322 BCE
Aristotle
Understanding the world. Cultivating judgement.
Stagira · Athens, Greece
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
How a habit becomes a virtue
Read the opening books of Nicomachean Ethics by connecting a good life with everyday character formation, without reducing Aristotle to an ethics of compromise.
Nicomachean EthicsWhat is a political community?
Explore citizenship and the common good while confronting the text’s exclusions. Understanding Aristotle does not mean accepting the limits he places on the community.
PoliticsLearning how to ask “why”
A first journey through Metaphysics via the desire to understand, types of explanation and the distinction between potentiality and actuality. An invitation to slow down over its terms.
Metaphysics