Nicomachean Ethics
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Sep 14, 2026
Joseph HudsonGUEST
And so before I turn to the difficulty of the paper, we can just say maybe briefly how theology and metaphysics are gonna be working together.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
Um, we can begin by looking at Aristotle and his metaphysics or-- and in the Nicomachean Ethics, both of them together.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
As, uh, Dr. Nieto noted yesterday, there's a certain amount of metaphysical principles that are enunciated in the Nicomachean Ethics.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
Um, Book Ten reaches toward the divine in describing contemplation.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
Um, but he doesn't really develop those things inside the ethics.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
I think they're there, and I'd be curious to hear, um, maybe some thoughts about what they can-- how they shape his moral landscape.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
But he's not really appea-appealing to, to God directly when appealing to, uh, pursuing the good in the Nicomachean Ethics.
Joseph HudsonGUEST
Secondly, revelation is going to shape in theology and in the Summa, um, how St. Thomas thinks about human action in relationship to the rational creature.
Gary NullHOST
I'm asking you to sit with how strange it is that an entire moral infrastructure, invisible and unenforced by any law, simply held a society together, and that we now find the story of the honest wallet finder quaint, almost naive, the way you react to a black, white newsreel.
Gary NullHOST
Aristotle spent a good portion of the Nicomachean Ethics arguing that a genuine community- What was called a polis, P-O-L-I-S, and it's worth the name, is bound together not by contracts and cameras, but by philia, that's P-H-I-L-I-A, meaning a mutual goodwill that citizens extend to one another because they recognize themselves in the other.
Gary NullHOST
We didn't need Aristotle to tell us that.
Gary NullHOST
We lived it.
David AndersHOST
And so famously, Aristotle wrote the first great treatise on ethics in the Western tradition.
David AndersHOST
It was his Nicomachean Ethics.
David AndersHOST
It's a magnificent book.
David AndersHOST
Everybody ought to read it.
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And Heraclitus blamed the poet who said, Would that strife were destroyed from among gods and men! for there could be no harmony without sharps and flats, nor living beings without male and female, which are contraries.
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 8, 2 In reference to these things, some seek for deeper principles, and more in accordance with nature.
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Euripides says, The parched earth loves the rain, and the high heaven, with moisture laden, loves earthward to fall.
speaker_13NARRATOR
And Heraclitus says, The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony, and all things take place by strife.
Meghan SullivanGUEST
But he had some insights about the good life that are really fantastic, and one of them involves language.
Meghan SullivanGUEST
[lips smack] So he writes this book called The Nicomachean Ethics.
Meghan SullivanGUEST
Nicomachus was his son and his dad, so we're not really sure who he-
David BrooksHOST
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Meghan SullivanGUEST
in ordinary situations, a little bit less moral than maybe their baseline American.
Meghan SullivanGUEST
But, but this should not come as a surprise to those of us who study the tradition of philosophy.
Meghan SullivanGUEST
A- Aristotle, our guy, our main man, again, addresses this in his second lecture in Book 2 of the Nicomachean Ethics.
Meghan SullivanGUEST
He says, "Here's the deal with philosophy and the good life.
Jack DonovanHOST
And
CB RobertsonHOST
something I want to throw out too, because there is a danger of taking our values from the sort of guy Aristotle warned us about in the beginning of Nicomachean Ethics.
CB RobertsonHOST
If you ask a sick man what's best in life, he'll say health.
CB RobertsonHOST
If you ask a poor man what's best in life, he'll say money.
Jan MorehouseNARRATOR
He went to the Gustavianum to hear a lecture on the history of philosophy.
Jan MorehouseNARRATOR
For the three quarters of an hour during which the lecture lasted, the professor went through the introduction to Aristotle's Ethics.
Jan MorehouseNARRATOR
John calculated that with three lectures a week, he would require forty years to go through the history of philosophy.
Jan MorehouseNARRATOR
Forty years, he thought, that is too long for me, and did not go again.
Marianna OrlandiGUEST
I'm thinking about it a lot.
Marcus PeterHOST
Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, talked about the three different categories of friendships.
Marcus PeterHOST
You've got friendships of pleasure, and these are the relationships you have that have a lot of laughter, but not much by way of tremendous depth.
Marcus PeterHOST
You've got friendships of utility, and these are the people you work with, accomplish projects with, accomplish goals with.
John VespasianHOST
Discard Unpromising Projects Right Away Aristotle believed that good judgment means understanding what is potentially achievable, what is likely, and what is impossible.
John VespasianHOST
In his Nicomachean Ethics, he made an important distinction.
John VespasianHOST
Practical wisdom or paranoia is not simply knowing things in general, is knowing what to do in particular circumstances.
John VespasianHOST
For instance, when we are working on a project that clearly is not going anywhere.
John VespasianHOST
Discard Unpromising Projects Right Away Aristotle believed that good judgment means understanding what is potentially achievable, what is likely, and what is impossible.
John VespasianHOST
In his Nicomachean Ethics, he made an important distinction.
John VespasianHOST
Practical wisdom or paranoia is not simply knowing things in general, is knowing what to do in particular circumstances.
John VespasianHOST
For instance, when we are working on a project that clearly is not going anywhere.
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