Aristotle: Don't be like me acquiring all these restraints, marriage, becoming religious in my case. Agnes Callard: Who do I see? What kind of person do I want to be? And we come back to the vampire problem of LA. When I'm younger, what looks like fun is not the same as when I'm older and I've given up some of it and returned for something else. We also have an argument over whether you can tell the difference between a goon box wine and Jeffrey Brennan's really lovely wines.
Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about human wants and desires with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Human beings have desires about our desires. Can we change what we want? And how should economists and normal human beings think about doing the right thing, what we often call morality? Is acting morally self-interested behavior or is it possible to act selflessly?