
Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Are You a Roll Model of Virtue Ethics?
The idea that you want to like, what would jesus do? Well, like, jesus was a great man, but he's like the last guy that you're trying to imitate. And when you jesus would pull fishes out of his as well, dod div it. If we learn shorthand that virtue ethics is about, we don't ask, what action should i perform? We should ask, what kind of person should i be? I have something specific in mind, like jesus's insight into thinking carefully about moral situations. Buti don't necessarily have this global picture of what this person was.
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