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'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.'In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our flourishing as members of a community, and ones that allow us to engage in god-like contemplation. Contemporary ethical writings on the role and importance of the moral virtues such as courage and justice have drawn inspiration from this work, which also contains important discussions on responsibility for actions, on the nature of practical reasoning, and on friendship and its role in the best life. This new edition retains and lightly revises David Ross's justly admired translation. It also includes a valuable introduction to this seminal work, and notes designed to elucidate Aristotle's arguments. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Groundhog Day
A Mother’s Struggle to Protect her Son from Repeated Failures of a Mental Health Service
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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The story of a mother’s 27-year battle to get appropriate support for her son and to protect him from negligent and at times abusive services. At a time when the UK government is updating mental health legislation, when the WHO and the UN are recommending the reduction of coercive psychopharmacological practices, and when many mental health professionals and people with lived experience are questioning the use of toxic medications, this is a powerful personal account written by a mother and experienced psychotherapist of the emotional distress she experienced as she watched her son deteriorate.The author describes under-resourced service providers who fail to listen, are frequently unskilled and at times negligent. She questions the limitations of subjective psychiatric diagnoses without adequate investigation or assessment and the trial-and-error method of prescribing toxic medications without basic monitoring. She describes the lack of adherence to the safeguards of the Mental Health Act and the 2014 Care Act and failures caused by the lack of communication between service providers. She references the literature and research projects that support her growing realisation that the professional help she sought to support him is in fact damaging him.