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Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's ethics is based, most of all, on the concept of happiness. He thought that in a full life, people would achieve their happiness by doing well what they were best at. Now that is also the main foundation of Aquinas' ethics. It is based on happiness, eudemonistic, as they say, but of course being a Christian, he adds an extra level of happiness.

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