“To emulate a worthy man is not to re-live his individual life, but to utilize the principle of worthy living, exemplified by him, toward the qualitative improvement of our individual life.”
Source: David L. Norton, Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (Princeton University Press, 1976), 13. Quoted in Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen, “The Perfectionist Turn,” Social Philosophy & Policy, 30:1-2 (January 2013), pp. 69-94.
Related: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, in the Philosophers, Explained series: