Problem:
Like Socrates, Aristotle is interested in what the best sort of life for a human being is. But Aristotle goes beyond this early on noting that merely reflecting on this question will not make your life better, or make us better people. Rather, according to Aristotle, our lives only become better through our acting and making choices that are consistent with living the best sort of life for a human being. Nonetheless, Aristotle clearly values "the examined life" as an essential step in the process. This is evident in the fact that his text is an examination of the question of how we ought to live.
So my question to you is what do you think Aristotle sees as the value of examining how we ought to live is, given that merely examining how we ought to live won't make our lives better?