In his Nicomachean Ethics, the philosopher Aristotle tries to discover what is ‘the supreme good for man’, that is, what is the best way to lead our life and give it meaning. For Aristotle, a thing is ...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics reads uncannily like a critique of today, which is obsessed with optimisation, hacks and ...

What is it with the soft sciences, anyway, that its practitioners are so good at coming up with studies that border on the banal? Take the two Harvard psychologists, whose study is reported by John ...