A balanced life
Is balance a self-evident good? It certainly thinks it is. Take a cliché like ‘work-life balance’. To be out of balance is by definition to get something wrong. Perhaps you’re working too hard, or not enough, or exhibiting insufficient joie de vivre. In any of these cases, what you need to do is obvious (even if doing it is difficult). You must weigh up your options and commitments, then find a way to bring yourself back into balance.
Philosophically speaking, the principle of balanced living owes a lot to Aristotle. In the , Aristotle uses the metaphor of a craftsman creating an
