Podcast
The Daily Stoic
The podcast discussed Aristotle's *Nichomachean Ethics*, noting its practicality and how its insights into human nature remain relevant. The discussion touched upon how seemingly banal advice from the text can be profoundly insightful with age.
some of the stuff like the nicotine ethics the aerosols that can be key in ethics which are really is worth plumbing because when you first read it it kind of feels banal
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The podcast discussed Aristotle's *Nichomachean Ethics*, noting its practicality and how its insights into human nature remain relevant. The discussion touched upon how seemingly banal advice from the text can be profoundly insightful with age.
some of the stuff like the nicotine ethics the aerosols that can be key in ethics which are really is worth plumbing because when you first read it it kind of feels banal
there's the famous anecdote of when Churchill was asked to read it and then asked his response and he said well I knew all that already and some students of the australis regard that as a sign of Churchill's intense gravity but I think it's uh it's more a function of the fact that these notions of virtue the aerosol outlined are actually incredibly insightful about human nature