2023-02-27
To accompany our episode about Plato and Aristotle, Dr Laurie Santos reads some key passages from books written by these important Ancient Greek thinkers. From Republic we hear Plato describe how we are like a chariot pulled by a nice horse on one side and a brute of an animal on the other - making steering our way through life troublesome. From The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, we learn that the best way to live a good life is through practice and repetition. If you want to be happy, if you want to be virtuous, then act that way.