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

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

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🗓️ 26 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Part 3. Book 10 Application. Our inquiry question. What is book 10? How does we apply Aristotle aristotle's ethics right guys so to start off our
0:23.6	explanation of this we're going to use an example let's do an example shall we and jack are in a car
0:28.8	do to change the track oh yeah so uh jack it's great that we're heading up the motorway to
0:36.2	sheffield what what are we actually doing again um i think we're going to see the Arctic Monkeys live in concert. Oh, that's going to be great. They're from Sheffield and everything. Anyway, so we're going to say that Andy's driving the car and that Jack is a passenger in the car, which means Jack is actually the main character of our story. Hello, I'm the main character of the story. Right, let's go. This is a bad writing. Yeah, we're very bad script writers. Yeah, my intentions for this episode
0:59.3	are this. Anyway, let's just say that you're driving down the motorway, everything's hunky-dory,
1:05.8	and now another car just deliberately swerves in front of you. Hot diggedy dog. What's that guy doing? Andy, you focus? So Andy starts beeping. The other driver stops his car right in front of you. In the middle of the motorway. And you've got to stop as well, because obviously this is very dangerous. Okay. Get sound off his shoulder. He gets his car. Put your hands on. Are you thinking? I'm doing it. Okay. Get out of the heart shoulder. He gets to have his car. But he has on.
1:28.9	Are you thinking?
1:30.2	I'm doing it.
1:30.8	Okay.
1:31.4	I thought you practiced the virtue of reason.
1:34.5	Let me finish.
1:35.6	So he gets out of the car and he starts swearing at Jack.
1:39.3	Okay.
1:39.5	He starts having a massive go at Jack.
1:41.1	Okay.
1:41.7	In this situation, guys, what do you think is the right thing to do?
1:45.1	Ah, okay. Right. So, well, should we start off with what I would probably do?
1:49.1	Yeah, start with what you would do and then we'll talk about the virtue.
1:51.0	Which is probably stay in the car. Lock the door. Yeah. Apologize profusely.
1:58.0	Yeah, for something that I wouldn't, that wasn't my fault. I'm so sorry. No, but I think what, what we're looking for here is the, I guess the virtuous thing to do is to step out and try and defuse the situation without anybody getting punched or anything like that. Okay, well, let's see where it goes in, shall we? So, now we're going to say that Andy, seeing he's been, he's driving, he's been cut up, is probably feeling quite angry and a bit scared. And obviously, this guy is kind of effectively being a complete, not very nice person by cutting you up and then getting out swearing and having a massive go at you. What do you think most people's kind of instant emotional reaction to that is going to be? Well, the emotional reaction is to get out, probably start
2:38.1	swearing yourself, and then maybe initiate some sort of fisticuffs. Normally you overreact. You're too
2:44.2	rash. You don't exercise any virtues do. Normally your reactions to be, you know, fall hardy.
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