Episode 147: Aristotle on Wisdom and Incontinence
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
On the Nichomachean Ethics (ca. 350 BCE), books 6–7. Is intelligence just one thing? Aristotle picks out a number of distinct faculties, some of which are relevant to ethics, and he uses these to explain Plato's puzzle of how someone can clearly see what the good for him is, and yet fail to pursue it due to weakness of the will. This episode continues our discussion from way back in ep. 5.
End song: "I Die Desire" from The MayTricks (1992).
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| 0:40.2 | Our question for episode 147 is something like, what is self-control? |
| 0:44.6 | And we are continuing our discussion from way back in episode 5 to now meet more of |
| 0:49.1 | air settles of the Kinkine ethics. |
| 0:50.9 | This time, books 6 and 7. |
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