
Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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I'm Just Doing What I Want, Flow Like Water
i was trying to look at this as a form of virtue ethics, you can kind of match it up against what aristotle says. And i thought this matched up well with his talking about the way at the beginning, in performing his duties,. The field commander remains calm but unfathomable, plined and self governed. He puts blinders on his officers and men so they never know what he's thinking. Be a man of mystery like it seems a very lonely, unsociable kind of life. That you're so practically oriented here that you're not doing what aristotle thinks is the best which is to have these friendships where you do philosophy together. This is the dais virtue
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