Welcome back to Young Heretics. It's time for some helpful tips from Plato's Republic on how to get a date

Finally some useful information from this

Blow hard. No, I'm kidding. I'm not really gonna teach you how to get a date on today's episode except

sort of tangentially as part of our discussion of

Moderation now I mentioned that we are on a sort of tour through the virtues last time first episode back on the feed

We talked a lot about what virtue is what's the nature of virtue?

What do we mean when we talk about virtue and why is it so important to strive for something

positive in the midst of a politics that seems to be falling apart in the midst of a new cycle that is constantly delivering some new crisis

Why is it important to have a north star?

So that's what this series is all about. We're gonna go for a while

I think this is really important stuff and I'm not really gonna set a particular limit on how long we're gonna be talking about virtue

But we won't always stick with the Greeks today

We're gonna still be with the ancient Athenian philosophers in particular Plato when we didn't really touch that much on last time

But I'm gonna start to branch out into other

Euras and other modes of philosophy as we go because I think there's a lot more to be said than just the kind of Aristotelian core of all this

But I did want to talk about the cardinal virtues because once we've established that virtue itself is

excellence and in particular form of being human characterological excellence

Athe Kay are a tae

Not just being able to write a syllogism or a book or have an idea or a theory about what goodness is

But being able to do goodness and love the good to derive that unique distinct pleasure

It comes from loving what is good and doing what is good and developing that habit ethos

Which eventually instills itself in you as character athos?

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