Books 8 and 9 argue that friendship is essential to the good life, and may have originally been a separate treatise. Book ten includes the conclusion that happiness is a result of the contemplative li
Books 8 and 9 argue that friendship is essential to the good life, and may have originally been a separate treatise. Book ten includes the conclusion that happiness is a result of the contemplative life, which follows from the initial claim that man  is a political animal. FTP, identify this ethical work, whose name derives from the fact that it was edited by Aristotle's son.
Books 8 and 9 argue that friendship is essential to the good life, and may have originally been a separate treatise.
the Nicomachean Ethics