You're listening to the Partial Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

it's said on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 312 is something like what is virtue, and we're continuing to

read the Dow Day Jing, traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, somewhere between 400 and 600 BCE.

And more information please see partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linson Meyer doing less and less every day until I'm doing nothing at all

in medicine with God's help.

This is Seth Paskin, like water, in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes R1, just trying to make my way in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, developing along my own lines in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Theodore Brooks, cooking small fish in the Brooklyn Hill, Australia.

All right, welcome back Theo, welcome back listeners.

We had so much fun doing this for one session, we wanted to do it for a second session.

What do you guys think about my characterization?

I think we started to get at in the course of talking about the Dow and talking about how

to understand the text, got at what virtue amounts to, what the sage, the virtuous person

amounts to.

But there's a lot more in this book on that that we did not cover.

So that seemed like when I was going through the sections that I had marked off originally,

the ones that we had not yet done, the vast majority of them were in one way or another

about this topic rather than about how crazy the Dow is or about the ideal state or anything.

All Dow and no day.

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