"To flourish is to be at work who you are," he says. "No one would want the contentment of listening to music without hearing the music." He argues that a human good is an activity of the soul in accordance with excellence, and it's not enough just to have this capacity.
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.