Status Updates From Aristotle's Ethics

Very digestible interpretation of Aristotles key writings on ethics. Urmson does a great job of communicating the value of Aristotle’s words. I look forward to providing a full review once I have finished

The wild excesses of the Athenian democracy left the ancient philosophers with a deep suspicion of extreme direct democracy; though Aristotle was not as hostile to it as was Plato, he thought that it gave power without the responsibility to be expected of those with a stake in the country. (p. 112)