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Philosophical Tools for Living the Good Life
The Art of Manliness
How Do You Balance Action and Contemplation?
The final part you discuss in the book is, how do you balance action and contemplation? And one of things i'm drawn to nicomake and aristotelian virtue ethics is it's very practical. But aristotle also thought cathet's important, but he doesn't think action is the most important. He thought contemplation was really important. What did ersel have to say about that? Ersel is really perplexed by this question. The challenge for somebody who feels like they're really starting to get udimonea the good life and their sights, is to figure out how they're going to incorporate this continuous, strange, distinctively human thinking into all of the really goal
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