Man naturally desires not only to be a loved, but to be lovely. Love meaning respected, honored, thought well of by people in your social circle. Number three is learning, which is a rich men of itself. And fourth is, we'll call it greed, lost appetite, but for money. So the desire for the love of gain and the accumulation of wealth is a common life.
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.