I've been rereading fragments of Terry Eagleton's philosophical/critical masterpiece, Ideology.
He talks about Aristotle's surprisingly still-relevant (almost post-modern) ethics (at least as he chooses to interpret them, in the context of a critique of what he calls neo-Nietzscheanism):
"Part of what is involved for Aristotle in living virtuously – living, that is to say, in the rich flourishing of one's creative powers – is to be motivated to reflect on precisely this process. To lack such self-awareness would be in Aristotle's view to fall short of true virtue, and so of true happiness and well-being. The virtues for Aristotle are organized states of desire; and some of these desires move us to curve back critically upon them." – p. 172 in my edition
I'm not really going anywhere with this. Just thinking "out loud," I guess.