Welcome back to hardcore literature. Today we're talking about Aristotle. Again, we've already talked about an overview for the Nikomakian ethics.

We've talked about how that can change your life. We're talking about how that philosophy can be made eminently practical and how we're going to change our lives by doing so.

We have even done a deep dive in courage, the virtue of courage, temperance and generosity.

And now it's time to go on to the next virtues.

The next virtues from Aristotle's ethics that we're going to talk about today, we're going to talk about magnificence.

We're going to talk about pride.

And if we have time, we will talk about ambition.

We might not have time because I'm trying to make this particular podcast sub 30 minutes because I want you to just get the info. We'll have a little chat about the different virtues and vices and stuff and how it can actually concretely change your life in a positive direction, and then you just get to it. I mean, what you want to do with the information is up to you, but I mean, I'm following this little virtue program that we've sketched out.

I'm making an assumption that you've already listened to the previous podcast. There's two. There's

one that's an overview and that's about 30 minutes and then there's one that's like an hour

talking about the first three virtues that Aristotle details in his ethics. Those are my

assumptions. I'm also assuming that you want to positively influence your life. You don't just want

to hypothesize, think philosophically and then do nothing with it. Okay. So let's dive in and we're

talking about magnificence. What is magnificence? Magnificence is one of those virtues that few people

know about. So if you ask anyone to, you know, even people who've never read Aristotle, don't know

idea what Aristotle is. What's Aristotle? You say to them, what's a virtue? Name me a few virtues.

People who have known nothing about ethics or the philosophy of ethics. They'll probably say,

hmm, truthfulness, courage, generosity, they'll say those pretty quickly, okay?

But magnificence, the hell is that?

And explaining this virtue to people often doesn't make it any more clear as to why it's

exactly a virtue, okay?

Now, here's the thing with virtues. Virtue ethics has a long

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