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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Aristotle

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Aristotle's Idea of the Middle Way

When aristotle thought about spiritual well being, this idea of udaimonia, what are the kinds of things he thought we should be paying attention to? What are the sorts of actions he wanted us to engage with? So he was really interested in developing character that was what he called moderate in exactly the right ways. And he viewed the virtues that help us thrive as being cases of behaviour that are intermediate between two extremes. If you're aiming to be brave and you're a cowardly person, you don't have to get all the way over to bravery - you just have to take a small step towards bravery....

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