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Ep. 1: James Otteson Ph.D: Aristotle and the Good Life

The Moral Imagination

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Eudaimonia and Confidence

I think a lot of, especially for a lot of younger people today, the answer is they don't really know. And so it's an interesting kind of tension between self-awareness and then the state of flow where joy or eudaimonia becomes a byproduct of being immersed in something that the valuable end as you described it. I used to give, taught undergraduates, like some simple examples. One of them was, in a sense, just this friendship where a professor listened to Beethoven's Misesa solemnness and he was deeply moved by it. But when he went back to listen to it again, he was trying to grasp, grasp to be moved. And

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