A community, like an individual, must keep its soul in balance. Spectacle and entertainment for their own sakes can stir up base passions, but...

All men by nature desire to know. Yet, knowledge is not attained by mere chance or passion, but through a reasoned and systematic method....

All human beings by nature desire to flourish, a state I call eudaimonia. This is not a matter of chance, but the result of...

A city, or polis, is not merely a place of shared habitation, but a partnership for living well. Yet this partnership cannot endure through...

I have long observed that man is by nature a political animal, destined to live in community with others. In such a state, the...

Man is a rational animal. While our hands must labor to rebuild the world, our highest function lies in the exercise of reason. This...

All human arts and inquiries, and all actions and pursuits, are thought to aim at some good. The highest good is human flourishing, or...

To act with virtue and reason, one must first possess knowledge of his surroundings. For how can a man provide for his household or...

For man is by nature a political animal, destined to live in concert with others. A community, or *polis*, cannot flourish without justice, for...

The foundation of a just and stable community, or polis, is its leadership. For just as a ship requires a skilled navigator to avoid...

Just as a shipwright must understand both the timber and the sea, a founder of a state must understand human nature and its political...