Episode 3, “What Does it Mean to Flourish,” was just released.
How are you different from a fruit fly? The obvious answer is that you can reason, plan, and ask what your life is for. Aristotle takes that difference seriously. If reason is what makes us distinctively human, then perhaps the good life is not the life that feels best at every moment, but the one that develops our human capacities most fully. The difficulty is deciding what that requires of us.
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