
Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Aristotle's Teleology of the Eyes
Aristotle says we should look at what people's actions have set them saying, actually aim at. So let's just look at how their actions aim and see if we can come up with these principles. That's where he comes up with the virtues, right? Or comes p with our nature. And so that's where it comes up with, we're the rational animal, right? That's thething special about us. It has to be something that's special to people. We work questioning whether that made any sense when you talked about people's intentions and actions.
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