Aristotle on 'Flourishing'

How to live a good life? Aristotle’s answer was live virtuously: do what a virtuous person would do. Learn more about Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, where he explained how to flourish.

Narrated by Stephen Fry. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.

This project is from the BBC in partnership with The Open University, the animations were created by Cognitive

[shazney]

I would love it if the final image on these was made available as a poster. Be a wonderful way to beef up the walls of some classrooms!

[McleansTD]

This is very inspirational, it should have lots more views!

[lucasgrange]

A discussion about the ways to translate eudaimonia is also interesting, as it has within it the concept of the Socratic daimon, which is at once like a conscience, but also like an impulse away from "innapropriate" ideas

[agnesfilms]

Merci pour toutes ces superbes vidéos ! De grandes idées si bien mises en scène ! Bravo !

[ManyPeregrine]

Thanks Milo for being me here. Great advice

[HaploidCell]

Virtue is a social construct, I think, so the explanation of the "middle way" really was needed.
Result: We can still talk about this philosophy over 2000 years after its inception and it still makes sense.

[markangelodeguia]

Sana guys matapos na natin lahat ng pinagagawa sa atin

[theinsecthashira]

Yoo hoo~ Nand2 ako para magtakedown notes ng para sa exam sa STS! 💜🖤🦋

[Donteatacowman]

Easily disproven by looking at people who make virtuous choices but suffer negative consequences. Still a nice thought and I like the idea of thriving as opposed to happiness being the end goal of something like utilitarianism.

[hackerwright]

The Nicomachean Ethics "an early self-help book" !?! Yes, he was the Deepak Chopra of his time.

[J-gwhe]

And how does virtuosity pay my hiked up rent?

[davidecerami]

Nessuno leggerà questo commento...he he he😏

[NikephorosAer]

Nice, short and simple!  Eudaimonia (ΕΥΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΑ), well, (ΕΥ+ΔΑΙΜΩΝ) means in Greek "Good Daemon",
Good God. A Greek friend, Nikephoros.