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Ep. 1: James Otteson Ph.D: Aristotle and the Good Life

The Moral Imagination

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Aristotle Used the Word Soul

Each of us is a unique, unrepeatable individual, but there's also some type of general framework. So for me, jumping off buildings is my eudaimonia without a parachute. Or, for me, unemployment and drug addiction, this sense is not simply some kind of radical autonomy of the will. But it's a unique individual fit in with a general plan of what it means to be a human being. Right, so it's not anything goes. And since human beings are unique, but they also share a common nature. So there are some things that will be true for all human beings because we're human beings.

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