The Guru of Athens
ARISTOTLE’S WAY: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
BY EDITH HALL
Penguin Press, 231 pp., $27
WHO KNEW THAT Melania Trump’s “Be Best” campaign was Aristotelian? As Edith Hall, a distinguished classicist at King’s College London, explains, “becoming the Best Possible You” is a core tenet of Aristotle’s “Project Happiness,” the pursuit of which is the subject of her new book, . Intended as a practical guide to living well, as opposed to an academic treatise, the book belongs more in the genre of self-help manuals and than, say, “The Meaning of Prohairesis in Aristotle’s Ethics.”
