Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle - The Book Club ft. Charles Kesler | The Book Club

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  • čas přidán 20. 11. 2023
  • ‪@MichaelKnowles‬
    Is the purpose of life happiness, and if so, how can we achieve it? Written nearly 2,500 years ago, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is as relevant today as it's ever been. Michael Knowles is joined by Professor Charles Kessler to discuss this seminal work exploring the age-old question of how to live a happy and meaningful life. As it turns out, Aristotle’s recipe for the good life has not grown stale.
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Komentáře • 40

  • @pcost
    @pcost Před 8 měsíci +23

    I dunno you guys but I am here since the first episode of The Book Club back in 2019 or so and this is, *BY FAR,* my favorite PragerU show and one of my favorite shows overall.
    Knowles really reads minds, I can not think of a single book he reviewed that is not worth to be in ANY respectable personal library nowadays. You are a jewel and this show is a jewel.
    Mad respect from Canada 🇨🇦

  • @dominiccentanni796
    @dominiccentanni796 Před 8 měsíci +7

    For your next book club you should have Jordan Peterson on to talk about the Gulag Archipelago.

  • @testingperson8413
    @testingperson8413 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Civilization building knowledge like this is fascinating, not boring!

  • @terrorists-are-among-us
    @terrorists-are-among-us Před 8 měsíci +6

    Already agree. I enjoy not having to remember lies or know what the culture expects of me, i just treat others well and get on with my day. Feels fine, sleep is great. Not medicated. People are envious of me for no real reason. That part actually sucks cause they seek a hit of pleasure possibly at my expense, but their issues are not my problem if i avoid them. Which I'm happy to do 😂

  • @TheExcelsiorFiles
    @TheExcelsiorFiles Před měsícem +1

    The book is currently winging it's way to me as we speak. I'm just here getting a pre-read heads-up on what to expect.

  • @KRinT04
    @KRinT04 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I truly enjoy the book club discussions. Thank you, gentlemen, for reading, understanding, and sharing Aristotle's masterpiece! 👏👏👏

  • @dannyharvanek3908
    @dannyharvanek3908 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Good - true & the beautiful

    • @aoiichika928
      @aoiichika928 Před 3 měsíci

      Bonum, pulchrum, trivium

    • @aoiichika928
      @aoiichika928 Před 3 měsíci

      My school is literally called “Trivium Prep - Great Hearts Schools” and hat you said is literally our school motto lolol (it's a charter school).
      God bless and be with you :DDD! ✝️

  • @susanternyey5883
    @susanternyey5883 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Thanks for the reminder...read this too many years ago. Good timing at Thanksgiving.

  • @terrorists-are-among-us
    @terrorists-are-among-us Před 8 měsíci +3

    Oooooooh baby. More of these.

  • @JAdams-jx5ek
    @JAdams-jx5ek Před 8 měsíci

    Thank you both that was a great book review.

  • @marchess286
    @marchess286 Před 8 měsíci

    Thank you

  • @thomascorr1760
    @thomascorr1760 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Whooop whooop! Love me some Nico-Mack daddy Aristolian Ethics…

    • @thomascorr1760
      @thomascorr1760 Před 8 měsíci

      😀😃😄😁😆🥹😅😂🤣🥲☺️😊😇🙃😎🥳

  • @kristiansundsfjord4095
    @kristiansundsfjord4095 Před 4 měsíci

    Excellense is never an accident. It is the wise choice of many alternatives. Its choice, not chance that determines your destiny - Aristitotle. Dont remember which one. There are differnt ones related to our choices. But it might have been this one or «on the soul». And the word «virtue» in his time could also mean «excellense» in his time. We know Plato referred to excellense in the same word for virtue

  • @rosezingleman5007
    @rosezingleman5007 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I love Harry Stottlemeier.

  • @lancedevooght5027
    @lancedevooght5027 Před 8 měsíci +1

    11:47 situational ethics.

  • @spikedpsycho2383
    @spikedpsycho2383 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Exactly because nacho man ethics

  • @hughman2346
    @hughman2346 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I guess we'll see how many people on youtube have this book.

  • @terrorists-are-among-us
    @terrorists-are-among-us Před 8 měsíci +1

    The reason people don't have friends is because they're awful. If you have to create a pity party to socialize you're probably a nightmare to know.

  • @paige476
    @paige476 Před 6 měsíci

    8:00

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard1000 Před 8 měsíci +1

    6th, 21 November 2023

  • @Firmus777
    @Firmus777 Před 6 měsíci

    Surprisingly good video by PragerU. Man, I wonder what kind of political and economic beliefs they advocate. Surely it would be ones that would promote ensure developing material conditions to the best of society's abilities since material needs are recognized in this video as an important prerequisite. Surely one that would promote social cohesion and friendship among people as well. Surely they would support a system taht is based on looking towards the greater good and not one that relies on divisive individualism which was recognized as a danger in this video.

  • @mikeharvey4538
    @mikeharvey4538 Před 8 měsíci

    More of these please!!

  • @dannyharvanek3908
    @dannyharvanek3908 Před 3 měsíci

    Benedictus

  • @terrorists-are-among-us
    @terrorists-are-among-us Před 8 měsíci +2

    People online are personas not friends. You will never know the true them. Try moving in with your best chat buddy and find out real quick how much you can't stand eachother 😂

  • @lancedevooght5027
    @lancedevooght5027 Před 8 měsíci +12

    Aristotle said that "a good life" was the goal, not happiness.

    • @philagon
      @philagon Před 8 měsíci +9

      These are synonymous in Aristotle. Living well is nothing other than eudaimonia, happiness, understood in the qualified Aristotelian sense.

    • @turkeysandwiches9160
      @turkeysandwiches9160 Před 7 měsíci

      Bro what

  • @user-tb5yq8ek3w
    @user-tb5yq8ek3w Před 5 měsíci +1

    100of the❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂m

  • @cz4510
    @cz4510 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Only possible though Christ

  • @Seventh7Art
    @Seventh7Art Před 8 měsíci +1

    The Left is more interested in investigating if Aristotle was too white and therefore rayciiiiiiiisssst and "supremacist" LOL lol 😂 😂

  • @stuartofblyth
    @stuartofblyth Před 8 měsíci

    There is a need here to get the foundation right, because sadly one is building on sand otherwise. Here it is:
    'Then an official asked Jesus, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for God"'.
    Did you get it? "Nobody is good except for God". That's where Aristotle should have started. That's where the discussion should have started.

  • @TheNabOwnzz
    @TheNabOwnzz Před 8 měsíci

    Ah yes, Aristotle, the destroyer of Christianity. Not a very good idea to promote such a pernicious fellow.

    • @RYwoodview
      @RYwoodview Před 8 měsíci +7

      Come on. Aristotle long preceded Christianity. Many of the Church Fathers and later theologians valued Aristotelian ethics as they preserved Greek philosophy and integrated it with Christian belief.

    • @TheNabOwnzz
      @TheNabOwnzz Před 8 měsíci

      @@RYwoodview "Substituted" is the better word. That's scholasticism, and people like Thomas Aquinas exacerbated the matter, turning Christianity into a structural mess of the habitus/actus fidei combination.