ARISTOTELIAN HAPPINESS IN JANE AUSTEN’S NOVELS
{jcomments on}{jcomments off} Friendship Alasdair MacIntyre perceptively observed about Jane Austen: “When Jane Austen speaks of ‘happiness,’ she does so as an Aristotelian.”[1] And as it is a well known fact that Aristotle held friendship as a crucial condition for happiness (“For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other…