The good life for humans imitates divine life by its self-sufficiency, its provision on its own of what is worthwhile, its relative lack of dependence on external goods and matters of chance. In this way, our call to imitate divine self-sufficiency seems to conflict with our political nature, our need for other people. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle addresses this possible conflict between our political nature and our divine nature in ways that are not obviously consistent with one another. In Book 9, Chapter 9, he argues that the happy man, although he is self-sufficient, will still need
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