Abstract
This article dissents from the widespread view that Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics should be interpreted as a treatise offering a guide to the good life. Careful examination of the way in which Aristotle links dialectical method and practical intent in the general structure of his argument shows that the Ethics should be viewed as a protreptic device for inviting and initiating readers into the philosophic life. Aristotle leaves us not with a set of rules for conduct but with an invitation to continue his search for the human good in our own lives using the paradigmatic inquiry of the Ethics as our guide.
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