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Leon Kass: The Taming of the Shrewd S1 E23

Meditations with Zohar

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Aristotle's Udaimonia and Niko Mihkan Ethics

I'm thinking about sort of Aristotle's vision and Niko Mihkan ethics on which you comment in which one of the highest activities of the human being is to be at like is to be doing something sort of for its own sake. So my question is to what extent do you see this sort of atylic vision of Aristotle's udaimonia, this idea of making your life a work of art? And then just as a postscript to that, I will note that regardless of how you think about it in the Bible, like in rabbinic Judaism, you do have the idea of Torah, lee schmav, studying Torah for its Own Sake. The reverence

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