Virtue & Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer |
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Colin Redemer is a professor at Saint Mary's College of California and VP of the Davenant Institute. This podcast is all about Virtue Ethics and the Aristotelian ethical tradition. Is Virtue Ethics superior to utilitarianism and effective altruism? What is human excellence? What is eudaimonia? How should one live? We also discuss later developments in Aristotelian ethics, from Aquinas to Anscombe to MacIntyre.
✦ Order Colin's new book, The Shining Human Creature: https://davenantinstitute.org/shining-human-creature ✦ Follow Colin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/redemthetimes ✦ Learn more about the Davenant Institute: https://davenantinstitute.org/ Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit ship at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ Become a member at https://imperceptible.country IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on an independent project, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org 0:00 Intro 2:08 What is the essence of Aristotelian ethics? 6:03 Summarizing the Nicomachean Ethics 13:21 Aristotle destroys utilitarianism 17:00 The difference between Aristotelian ethics & virtue ethics 19:09 Defining excellence & its practical singularity 35:04 The Aristotelian strand to Christian theology 44:16 Christ is the perfect friend 49:00 The role of intellectual life in ethics 55:15 Reading Aristotle to optimize living a good life 57:46 Anscombe & reintroducing Aristotle into modern philosophy 01:01:15 Alastair McIntyre & contemporary Aristotelianism 01:05:46 Where Thomism fits in the Aristotelian tradition 1:10:25 The primacy of Aristotelian Christian ethics over secular rationalism 1:19:08 The Davenant Institute & experiments in higher education 1:25:45 Closing words |