Ben’s Reviews > The Nicomachean Ethics > Status Update

Sometimes you can know what the right thing to do is and yet, lacking the self restraint, you do something else... I thought about this topic SO MUCH that I recorded a podcast about it https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BW3...

"Suffering injustice is not as bad as committing injustice"...duh dude

Lots of tautologies. But some good practical stuff too

Many vices involve succumbing to pleasure so better to err on the side of caution and be wary of pleasure ... seems to contrast with the modern call to “let people enjoy things”

Such a systematic categorizer. I love it. Showing how "the good" manifests differently in different pursuits, distinguishing between ends that are done "for themselves" (terminal goals) vs those that are done "in service of others" (instrumental goals). The Greeks covered so much ground so long ago! I get why colleges want ppl to read these texts. So that we understand how little new there is under the sun