The idea that your life is an art form. This is meant emphasizing the living part. It's a dissuader from too much time on twitter, too much time watching a mindless television. And it's reminding, you, aristotle, it seems, that your time on this earth is short. Use it well. But he wants us also to think about what we really would look up to,. What would really be excellent, and not just good enough.
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.