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Aristotle’s Ethics: Courage, Temperance, Generosity (Podcast)

April 23, 2020 By Ben McEvoy

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:

  • Courage
  • Temperance
  • Generosity

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?

Books and works mentioned in the show:

  • Hara hachi bu 
  • The Gulag Archipelago
  • A Complaint Free World
  • The parable of the widow
  • Man’s Search for Meaning (review)
  • Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (review)
  • Abhorrent Gold Digger YouTube Channel
  • Ben Greenfield’s Ultimate Human Performance Course (review)

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