Edith Hall on Aristotelian Ethics, Intention, and Human Decency
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Edith Hall about why she wants to open up Aristotle’s works to the world at large, how Aristotle defined what a human being is and how one can be happy, the importance of doing what you’re good at and enjoying what you’re doing so long as it’s good for the social good, and more.
Edith Hall, FBA is a British scholar and professor of classics at Durham University, specializing in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College, London, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy. Her research and writings have been influential in three distinct areas: (1) the understanding of the performance of literature in the ancient theater and its role in society, (2) the representation of ethnicity; (3) the uses of Classical culture in European education, identity, and political theory. She has written and been a part of many publications about Greek classics, including Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life (2018), Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition (2009), and Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy (1989).
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| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:18.6 | Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short |
| 0:22.3 | Passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life |
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| 0:36.2 | Fascinating and powerful with them |
| 0:38.4 | We discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives |
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| 0:59.4 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I |
| 1:08.3 | Remember quite vividly my introduction to Marcus Aurelis have told this story many times but I |
| 1:13.9 | Happened to be taking a philosophy class at the time. I was not |
| 1:17.5 | Introduced to Marcus Aurelis in that philosophy class. No, it was called philosophy and the meaning of life |
| 1:22.8 | I was at UCR. It was an honor seminar and was weirdly at the movie theater on |
| 1:28.4 | Right off campus the University Village |
| 1:30.9 | I was trying to explain this to someone who goes there now. They used to it |
| 1:33.6 | They didn't have enough classroom space |
| 1:35.4 | So some of the big freshmen and sophomore classes would be in the movie theater, which is actually close to my apartment |
| 1:40.9 | which was actually right across the street and |
| 1:43.7 | I was reading airst. I read |
| 1:46.1 | Nick a Manchin ethics. That's what I was reading and and it was |
| 1:50.6 | Fascinating and I opening and I learned a lot from it |
| 1:53.2 | But then when I read Marcus Aurelis, I was like, oh, this is it. I get this |
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