We’re expanding upon the first Aristotle Podcast today. If you listened to the first 30-minute show, you got a great grounding in Aristotle’s Ethics. You know about virtues, vices, habits, happiness, and living a life of meaning. But now it’s time to make all that practical.
We’re now talking about how to become courageous and generous over the course of a week, virtue homework assignments, chronic masturbation, binge eating, dirty money, and turning up to a first date with flowers.
This is Part 2 and is a deep dive (1-hour long) into the first three habits Aristotle outlines in his Nicomachean Ethics:
Listen to Aristotle’s Ethics: Courage, Temperance, Generosity:
Timestamps for the podcast:
- 1:36: Benjamin Franklin’s virtues
- 3:52: The virtue of courage
- 12:37: Choose or endure
- 14:08: Should you save an old lady from being mugged?
- 18:00: How to stop complaining
- 21:21: How to cure social anxiety
- 22:00: Exercises in how to become courageous
- 23:15: What is the virtue of temperance?
- 29:00: How I gave up alcohol for 3 years
- 32:00: Why self-indulgence is worse than cowardice
- 34:00: On pleasure
- 38:00: On the virtue program
- 45:36: What is the virtue of generosity?
- 50:00: Should you turn up to a first date with flowers?