For our 50th episode, we return to Ancient Greece and to philosophy with The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (384-322 BCE). Intended as a guide to the good life for ancient Athenian elites, the Ethics has some advice to offer us today about how to pursue a worthwhile existence. This episode also goes into Aristotle's background and the shocking fact that most of the works we still have of his are lecture notes. That's right: for 2,500 years, people have pondered what are essentially Aristotle's PowerPoint slide decks.
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