To be at work fully yourself, without impediment, and the pleasure just follows. The fulness of activity when it is goes swimmingly well. And we need to be not in the zone, oblivious, but rather focused on the sense of bringing ourselves. That activity lights itself up in conscious ness as it's going swimmingly.
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.