The first example of a, the very first example of on to control your impulses, is toilet training. Asa ule talks about very profound human phenomenon, mostly connected with our love of sexual pleasure. People who know the good but somehow when the passion overcomes them, they sort of succumb. He calls that incontinence. Well, the original incontinence, in fact, is when people lose command of that original toilet training. It's an acquired freedom. And am the ation of the child is really if it's done.
Leon Kass, long-time teacher of classic works at the University of Chicago and now Dean of Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem, talks about human flourishing with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on an essay from his book, Leading a Worthy Life, Kass gives a broad overview of Aristotle's ideas on how to live.
This episode also discusses the listeners' votes for their Top 10 EconTalk podcast episodes for 2020.