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    The Guru of Athens

    Dec 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Review by Caroline Alexander

    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.”

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