Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer
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What Is Virtuous?
There's some sort of social component to what is virtuous. In the early, in the middle of 20th century, the virtuous thing to do would be to not smoke or to go really light on the smoking. But nowadays when it's villainized and everyone is so obsessed with their own longevity,. perhaps you could make the case that society has gone too far into this kind of safety ideology. So explain the social element to what it means to be virtuous.
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