Ekon talk: How did you become a faculty member teaching great books at saint john's college and at the committee of social thought at the university of chicago? Ekon Talk: i've loved everything i've done. I didn't teach many different books, or at most two. And i haven't read very many books in my life well, but i was lucky in what i picked, and i lived with em, and they've informed me.
Leon Kass, long-time teacher of classic works at the University of Chicago and now Dean of Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem, talks about human flourishing with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on an essay from his book, Leading a Worthy Life, Kass gives a broad overview of Aristotle's ideas on how to live.
This episode also discusses the listeners' votes for their Top 10 EconTalk podcast episodes for 2020.