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The article examines Aristotle’s contribution to the well-known issue concerning “worthy way of life” in ancient Greek context. It focuses on Aristotle’s two major political works, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics in the light of the prevalent question of what is the worthiest way of life. According ...

The article examines Aristotle’s contribution to the well-known issue concerning “worthy way of life” in ancient Greek context. It focuses on Aristotle’s two major political works, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics in the light of the prevalent question of what is the worthiest way of life. According to the dominant interpretation, Aristotle endorses the philosophical life as the worthiest. This interpretation, however, faces a few difficult problems with respect to textual unity of each work and theoretical consistency of his thought between the two works. The article attempts to solve those problems through close reading of the two texts. It argues that the apparent ambiguity of Aristotle’s position is explained by his intension that both potential philosophers and ordinary citizens choose the best way of life as they could. Aristotle reaffirms philosophers that the philosophical life alone is the best. At the same time, he implies to the ordinary citizens that the political life is also choice-worthy if it assimilates philosophical life. The article concludes that the new concept of political life eventually opens the possibility of the politics of eudaimonia, which may replace politics of agon.

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