Aristotle | On the Good Life
In this excerpt from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores what it means to lead a good life and how this is related to pleasure, pain, virtue, and character. He concludes that happiness, or pleasure, is the chief good, or end goal, of a well-lived life.
-Self-sufficiency, for Aristotle, is
A) counted as one good thing among others.
B) includes one's ancestors, descendants, and friends of friends.
C) what would make someone sufficient in isolation.
D) what makes life desirable and lacking in nothing.

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Aristotle argues that self-sufficiency is what makes life desirable and lacking in nothing, as it is the ultimate goal that fulfills all needs and desires, leading to true happiness.

Aristotle | on the Good Life