PNTV: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson
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The Importance of Virtue in Life
The ultimate target, the summum bonum of life was to have a good soul. To have a good relationship with that inner guiding spirit they call it a dimon. When you pay attention to that voice and you have fun high fiving, your inner dimon, you are a udimon. That's the ultimate end that we're all after, the sum of monum. How do we achieve that? Well, Aristotle tells us, via what he calls virtuous activity of the soul. You want to experience udimonia? What experience that deep sense of joy and flourishing will then live with virtue.
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