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Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Aristotle's Philosophy of Virtues

Aristotle talks about virtue in terms of what it means to be specifically human. He thinks the human function is being rational, or an activity coming from a rational principle. The point of existentialism is that people don't have functions. We 're just here,' he says.

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