Plato's Disagreement on the Immortality of the Soul

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Aristotle and Plato disagree about the immortality of the soul. Aristotelian view is that at some point you are what you're going to be, Dhersa says. For a 20 year old listener it's like: Is all this aspiration stuff going to make me happy? Agnes asks in her TED Talk.

Where do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge of aspiration--who we are versus who we would like to become. How does aspiration work? How can we transform ourselves when we cannot know how it will feel to be transformed? Callard discusses these questions and more in this provocative episode.