The advice presented above about behaving as you would were you not feeling nihilistic, while you are, is strikingly similar to Aristotle’s advice about virtue: ‘we become just by doing just acts; good by doing good deeds. virtue is the result of habit’. For Aristotle, virtue was a means to the end he defined as the ‘good’, which in turn was pleasure. Not hedonistic pleasure, but intellectual pleasure.
The advice presented above about behaving as you would were you not feeling nihilistic, while you are, is strikingly similar to Aristotle’s advice about virtue: ‘we become just by doing just acts; good by doing good deeds. virtue is the result of habit’. For Aristotle, virtue was a means to the end he defined as the ‘good’, which in turn was pleasure. Not hedonistic pleasure, but intellectual pleasure.