The Ethics of Aristotle, Reading 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Let's kick off a relaxing 2020 with the snooze-inducing wonders of Aristotelian philosophy. To be fair, we never actually finish the ponderous introduction and learn about The Ethics, but I doubt you'll mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once. |
| 0:16.0 | So lie back, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath, and off we go. |
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| 0:59.0 | Now let's get to tonight's reading. |
| 1:05.0 | This evening we're stepping back in time with a classic, |
| 1:08.0 | The Ethics of Aristotle. |
| 1:11.0 | Introduction by J. A. Smith. |
| 1:15.6 | Translation by DP Chase. |
| 1:18.9 | Published by J.M. Dent, London. |
| 1:22.3 | And E.P. Dutton, New York, 1911. Let's begin. |
| 1:31.3 | The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of Aristotle is one half of a single |
| 1:40.0 | treatise of which his politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. |
| 1:49.2 | This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the philosophy of human affairs, but more frequently |
| 1:58.3 | political or social science in the two works taken together, we have their author's whole theory of human conduct |
| 2:08.7 | or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. |
| 2:19.0 | The two parts of his treatise are mutually complimentary, but in a literary sense each is independent |
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