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Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer

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The Most Excellent Way to Live Excellently

To achieve this ideal state of flourishing or eudaimonia or blessedness, it has something to do with living in accordance with one's highest potential. And we'll try to unpack that a little bit more in just a minute. But I think an interesting question to insert here is why can't it not be the case that the most excellent way to live is to simply increase the, you know, maximize the greatest good for the greatest number of people? Why can't that be the appropriate way to live excellently?

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