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Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer

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The Happiness of a Basset Hound

Happiness is not necessarily what people today would think of when they think of happiness. To be happy, you have to be able to achieve and actualize the potencies, the potentials that are inside of you,. And humans have all these potentials that cows and Basset hounds don't have. The greatest distinction between my Basset Hound and me is that when I read poetry he just goes, "There's no, it doesn't compute"

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