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The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Episode 28, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Part I)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Courses

4.8612 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's (384 – 322 BC) best-known work on ethics. The work consists of ten books and is understood to be based on Aristotle's lecture notes. These notes were never intended for publication. Sometimes his notes are merely cues to talk more generally about a subject, other times they are more representative of what Aristotle would have actually said to his students. The Nicomachean Ethics is amongst the most discussed texts in history and philosophers continue to debate its contents and intended purposes today.  One cannot deny, however, that Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is concerned with key political and ethical questions – Questions like, How can we do what is best for citizens? and What is the good life and how do we achieve it? Part I. Aristotle's Approach and Fundamental Arguments (start of Part I), Part II. Virtue as Excellence (start of Part II), Part III. Book X and Application (start of Part III), Part IV. Further Analysis and Discussion (start of Part IV).

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Aristotle's Nicomacian Ethics is his best known work on ethics.

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The Nicomacian Ethics consists of 10 books and is understood to be based on notes from Aristotle's lectures.

0:19.0

These notes were certainly never intended for publication.

0:23.4

Sometimes these notes are merely cues to talk more generally about a subject, and at other

0:27.3

times they are more representative of what Aristotle would have actually said to his students.

0:32.8

The Nicarmacchian ethics is widely considered to be a precursor to Aristotle's works on politics.

0:38.7

So we're looking at two key questions.

0:41.5

How can we do best for the citizens?

0:43.8

And what is the good life and how do we achieve it?

0:48.1

Thank you to all of those who have subscribed to the show already.

0:51.8

If you haven't done so, you should have done by now,

0:55.0

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1:01.8

review. It makes a massive difference and everything you can find, including the reading

1:05.9

for today and any external links or for any panpsychast related things,

1:10.9

it's www.com.

1:15.7

Hello and welcome to episode 28 of the Pan Scicast. I'm Jack Symes and I'm joined once again by the rational Mr. Andrew Horton. Good day. And the virtuous Mr. Olly Marley, hello as well.

1:46.1

Great news. The audiobook. Do you want to share what this is all about, Andy? What's going on?

1:50.6

Yeah, so we've recently decided that we're going to pursue an audio book in the Christianity,

1:57.9

well, Christian thought modules for the OCR spec for the current A level.

2:04.6

Now, what that will mean is, is that we have a lot of really interesting topics that we

2:09.4

wouldn't usually do on the panpsychast because we're focusing on philosophy and ethics,

2:14.1

but it'll be a theology-based audio book.

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