
Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Purpose in Being a Good Citizen?
We should do some kind of a job when we're raising kids in the society to get them to at least acknowledge a certain amount of civic virtue. But i just don't, it's like, this makes a lot of sense to me in a very narrowd, in a very narrow context. Ye. That that qualifier theye talking about is good citizenship, instead of a good person, is exactly the problem with this whole teleological idea of humanity, in us having a purpose in the first place. There are lots of kinds of excellences that we could pursue. And some of them are very excessive excellences, and would require you to be,. you know, so mark
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