Tag: Active Life

• April 16, 2013

  Nagel on Aristotle on identifying with the ‘highest part of ourselves’

  What is the ergon of human beings, asks Thomas Nagel in his essay on Aristotle’s eudaimonia, for the answer to the question of how to live hangs on this. The ergon (function) of the hammer is to pound in nails; a poor hammer may be too heavy to wield, too flimsy, too poor at pound…