Aristotelian idea that it feels good to do the virtuous thing. And then how much habit repetition, education it takes to get to that point. Somebody estimated that it was 30 years, that he lived 30 years of that day. I've seen that work in the thousands of years, because we can look this up, but I thought it was more.
Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would've all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it's the quintessential movie for this topic.
Links
[all movie links are to imdb.com]
- Paul's Top 5
- Tamler's Top 5
- David's Top 5
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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