How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well

Written by Aristotle and Susan Sauve Meyer

Narrated by Hannibal Hills

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a colloquial new translation by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before.



For Aristotle, flourishing involves becoming a good person through practice, and having a life of the mind. To that end, he draws vivid portraits of virtuous and vicious characters and offers sound practical advice about everything from eating and drinking to managing money, controlling anger, getting along with others, and telling jokes. He also distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the universe and our relation to the divine.



Omitting Aristotle's digressions and repetitions and overly technical passages, How to Flourish provides connecting commentary that allows listeners to follow the continuous line of his thought. The result is an inviting and lively version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead a good life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Translator: Susan Sauve Meyer
• Release date: Jun 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781696610957

Aristotle

Aristotle was a philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in ancient Greece. He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the “Father of Western Philosophy.”

Reviews for How to Flourish

[Deedra Winey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was very good. I am not sure if I would have attempted Aristotle in another form.Very interesting to hear his theories.Hannibal Hills was a terrific narrator.