Episodes

  • The Nicomachean Ethics Book V

    The Nicomachean Ethics Book V
    Jun 14 2026
    In which the nature of Justice and Injustice is carefully examined, revealing Justice as a mean state governing fairness between individuals through notions of lawfulness, equality, and proportion in social transactions. Furthermore, the discussion contemplates the complexities of voluntary and involuntary acts, distinctions between natural and conventional justice, and the correction of legal universals by Equity, thereby elucidating the delicate balance required in human affairs to uphold moral rectitude.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • The Nicomachean Ethics Book IV

    The Nicomachean Ethics Book IV
    Jun 13 2026
    In which Aristotle delineates the mean virtues relating to wealth, honour, anger, and social intercourse, illustrating how true greatness and liberal generosity are measured not merely by external acts but by the propriety and motives that guide them. He further explores the balance in character between excess and defect—whether in giving, receiving, truthfulness, or jocularity—revealing that moral excellence is often a delicate temperance rather than mere quantity or display.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • The Nicomachean Ethics Book III

    The Nicomachean Ethics Book III
    Jun 12 2026
    In which the nature of voluntary and involuntary actions is carefully examined, distinguishing those born of compulsion or ignorance from those arising through deliberate choice and moral reasoning. The virtues of Courage and Perfected Self-Mastery are then explored as mean states regulating fear, boldness, and pleasures, wherein right reason guides the soul’s impulses towards honourable and moderate conduct.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Nicomachean Ethics Book II

    The Nicomachean Ethics Book II
    Jun 11 2026
    In which the nature of moral excellence is discerned as a state cultivated not by innate disposition but through habitual action, carefully balanced as a mean between excess and defect, much like the craftsman perfects his art by repeated practice. And so, virtue reveals itself not as a mere feeling or capacity but as a deliberate and stable disposition, aiming always at the mean determined by reason and practical wisdom amidst the fluctuating pleasures and pains that guide human choice.
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    41 mins
  • The Nicomachean Ethics Book I

    The Nicomachean Ethics Book I
    Jun 10 2026
    In which the pursuit of the Chief Good, identified as Happiness, is examined through the lens of human faculties and virtues, recognising it as a final and self-sufficient end that animates the life of reasoned action and excellence. And thus, drawing from the nature of the soul’s rational and irrational parts, the discourse unfolds the distinctions of moral and intellectual virtues as the essence of this noblest good.
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    1 hr