How should we live? This is the basic question for all of us. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Edith Hall, author of the book Aristotle's Way, gives a sympathetic answer to Aristotle's take on this question.
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Here'S a minor.
How should you live your life?
In other words, how should you behave?
What should you value?
Not easy to answer, but Aristotle had a few ideas about this, as the classicist and aristotelian scholar Edith hall explains.
Edith hall, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Hi.
It's great to be here, Nigel.
The topic we're going to talk about today is Aristotle's way.
Well, we know who Aristotle is, but what's his way?
Aristotle was a philosopher who included, amongst the things, he was interested in, ethics, which is the question, how should we live?
So it's a way of life.
It's a way of dealing with moral questions, making decisions, and trying to find the way to be the happiest human we can.
So the way is a kind of method of living.
Yes, he did actually use metaphors from roads and travelling, and he was a peripatetic.