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Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Function of the Eye

i think this argument about function is at the core of this understanding of ethics, and i still think it's puzzling. We have to think about them as having functions apart from the intention of any being exterior to human beings, rightly? For the eye, it sort of functional two senses, in that it serves the greater whole,. If we're dead, then it doesn't matter if our eye is working or not. Soyet, talk about a whole organism in the same way. Write that we tend toward being a healthy, strong organism. And we're getting sick in some way physically, or maybe there's soething wrong with our brains or something, then we recognize that there's

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