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Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is Happiness a Loading Concept?

Happiness is an empty concept. It just means being a good citizen is one of our functions. If other people find you pleasant to be around, then you're succeeding or your being. Youre fulfilling your function as a social animal in a way that you're not if you're a total hednistic bastard. I mean, he, he, and this, part of the purpose of the text is to try to define what that actually means. So if you feel like it's a loaded term, i'm ok with that. And if everybody agrees, yeh, that was pretty awesome, then all riht will that's what, that's what to shoot for next time

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