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Ep. 2139 Aristotle on How to Live a Good Life

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What Are You Struggling For?

Aristotle's view is that this can't go on forever. There has to be a final good, an ultimate good, beyond which no further questioning would be necessary or would make sense. And what people are striving for is some good. Some of these goods are what we would call instrumental goods. Their goods that we want, that we can get other goods. The car is the instrument by which i get to work. But then you might ask me, why do you want to go to work? And then i may say, well, because i need to earn money. and so on.

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