temperance, according to aristotle's putting our natural and good desires in proper order because it is good to desire food, just not too much. or too little. it good to desire drink because if we don't satisfy our thirst, we will die. and desire sex is good, too. all this has to be put in proper order. asceticism or eating disorder, post practices that deny our good healthy appetites are priceless just as indulgent in them too much or desiring them too much is also a vice. does have to do with the desire so it's not just, according to aristotle, if you desire something and deny it to your self, which we do that a lot, you have not yet obtained the virtue of temperance because that's when you actually have all of your desires in line with that healthy golden mean. it's a good one. another example that shows us how are virtue is a golden mean is patients. patients as the habit of beari bearing, suffering well. if you are alive and in this world, you're going to suffer. there's no choice in thee matte, we must all suffer and the only thing we can choose when we suffer is whether or not

but no, aristotle says otherwise. an excesss of courage actuallyas becomes rashness because you can be bold or rash but that's not moderated by all the other virtues and being connected to preserving good. then it is not courage it's rashness. he think we see a lot of that in the world today. people don't know the distinction they think if someone does something really gutsy or bold, that must be courageous. that is not virtuous courage if it is too extreme and also if it's not tied to the other virtues. of course the deficiency of courage is more from you your width is cowered in us. but i think we have enough boldness and brashness and rashness today. but reclaiming what that would be would help us with what virtuous courage is. another example is temperance. we can talk about temperance and herds of our emotions and feelings, aristotle use it very strictly in the sense of tempering our physical appetite or our desire for food and drink. alt necessary for human life to continue whether it's your own human life or hu

but aristotle says otherwise. in excess of courage actually becomes rash because you can be bold or rash but it could be courageous but not virtuous. >> have you had enough boldness and precious? so temperance, again, i but then to be holding. but but just not too much. or too little. because they don't satisfy our thirst but to desire sex is good too but they have to be put in proper order so if statuses and were eating disorders those are practices that deny a good healthy appetite of vices just as it is to indulge too much. does have to do with the desire. is not just going through aristotle that the patients of suffering in if you are alive and in this world you will suffer there is no choice. we must all suffer and the only thing we can choose i know we are sitting in traffic but to finish it is to endure evil without anything in return for i want to be careful because i ended up as i was revising this book it can be weapon eyes or whoever you might be talking about but then to not seek justice but again this

our culture fully embodies aristotle's good society but we see each day from that life. so to, i think the third life of the good reader. with that digital culture unlike martin heidegger that that dimension of human beings by the overwhelming materialism and consumerism and a fractured relationship with time. as steve wasserman asked, does the ethos of acceleration diminish our capacity for deliberation and feeble genuine reflection? does it banish that space needed for actual wisdom? readers know in their bone something that they forget at their peril that without books and without literacy, the good society vanishes. if we are to evaluate one - - evaluate the text we must examine ourselves without a cognitive flinch to look at who we area now as readers and co- inhabitants of a shared planet. many changes in our thinking oh as much to our biological reflex so to survive as a culture and to not only stimulate but to survive. we have a novelty bias, and we had to look at all of these. and i am suggesting the changes of our thinking today although not thatre biological r

in the ethics aristotle wrote that a good society has three lives. the life of knowledge and productivity, the life of entertainment within the greeks very particular understanding of leisure and finally the life of contemplation. so too i believe are the three lives of the good reader. there's the first life of the good reader in gathering information and acquiring knowledge and we are all awash in that life. there's a second life in which readings vary form of entertainment are to be found in abundance for sheer distraction and with the pleasure of emergence in stories of other lives, in articles about mysterious new we discovered some planets, imphal ones that steals our breath away. we've read to take this most economic transport away from our frantically pursued everyday life. the third life of the good reader is the culmination of reading and determinants of the other two lives. the reflective life in which whatever genre we are reading we enter a totally invisible personal realm, a private holy ground where we can contemplate all manner of hum

theologian john done wrote that our culture fully embodies aristotle's first two lives of the good society but receives each day from the third contemplative life. so too, i think, the third life of the good reader. there is no shortage of contemporary observance a digital culture who worry not unlike martin heidegger that the meditative dimension is threatened by an overwhelming emphasis on materialism, consumerism and a fractured relationship with time. as steve wasserman asked, does the ethos of acceleration demand our capacity for deliberation and then feeble our capacity for genuine reflection, does the daily avalanche of information banished the space needed for actual wisdom? readers know in their bones something we forget at our peril, that without books, without literacy the good society vanishes and barbarism triumphs. if we are to evaluate the truth in such descriptions of a digital culture we must examine ourselves. without a cognitive full image, and look at who we are now both as readers and as:habitants of a shared planet. many changes in our thinking now as much to our biol

theologian john wrote that our culture fully embodies aristotle's first two lives. a good society but we have seen each day from the third contemplative life. so too i think, the third life of the good reader, and there is no shortage of contemporary of our digital culture who worry like martin that the meditative dimension in human beings, is threatened. inspiron overwhelming emphasis on materialism, consumerism and a fractured relationship with time. and steve asked, does the ethos of acceleration, the prized by the internet diminish our capacity for deliberation and in people our capacity for genuine reflection. does the daily avalanche of information manage the space needed for actual wisdom. reader, readers know in their bones, something we forget and our peril. that without the books indeed, indeed without literacy, the good society vanishes and in triumph. now if we are to evaluate, the truth in such descriptions of digital culture, we must examine ourselves. without a cognitive flinch, and look at him we are now both as readers, and his co- inhabitants of th

the current of aristotle has surpassed its previous amount. the british public has been urged to stay indoors this bank holiday weekend after the uk's heights daily death toll so far in the coronavirus pandemic. after weeks of criticism over a shortage of personal protection equipment, the british government informed the health secretary has insisted there is now enough of that equipment if it's used correctly. the us state of new york has started to bury some of its deadin york has started to bury some of its dead in mass graves. the state now has more coronavirus cases than any other single country outside the united states. hospitals in some neighbourhoods say that they are overwhelmed. other areas say that they are struggling to cope. hello and welcome to our look at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sam lister, the deputy political editor of the daily express on the left, and political right and academic who has already posted online of our earlier conversation. first of all, a quick look at some of tomorrow's fron

mixed government that hamilton on the other framers got from classical philosophers, like cicero and aristotle, and all of these speakers said there are three orders in society, the one, the you, and in many and they had to be balanced in the different frames of government, and -- [indiscernible] and it isy argument meaningful. the best thing you can do during this time of crisis when it comes to the constitution is educate yourself, and read the primary sources in the text of the constitution and the federalist papers and other works of the founders and make your own mind. host: what are the concerns you and hamilton had with what the president has been saying in recent days? guest: well, hamilton was extremely concerned that the federalt would sue the government for himself, power stepped along to the people. he gives examples of the possible corruption. what if a state governor is engaging in a conspiracy against the united states that would not serve the public interest? the president can only pardon people. does notrdon power extend to the people. some governors at the time, new hampshire

the current of aristotle has surpassed its previous amount. this bank holiday weekend after the uk's heights daily death toll so far in the coronavirus pandemic. after weeks of criticism over a shortage of personal protection equipment, the british government informed the health secretary has insisted there is now enough of that equipment if it's used correctly. the us state of new york has started to bury some of its deadin york has started to bury some of its dead in mass graves. the state now has more coronavirus cases than any other single country outside the united states. hospitals in some neighbourhoods say that they are overwhelmed. 0ther neighbourhoods say that they are overwhelmed. other areas say that they are struggling to cope.

i had been plato with a boy dressed as aristotle in tow, i had been a hot pink ncgligce all nuns where under their robes. i had been dorothy fromkansas . poppy flowers woven into my dreadlocks. maybe a theme like the future was supposed to get us the wonder sorry i what the future would look like. but i couldn't find it in myself. and instead, i can wonder was whether there would be a future left for any of us. a black man running to become president of the united states of america and i was checking the news every morning, anxious. half expecting to read that he has anassassinated . lately, i have been calling home less. i hadn't even told my mom i was going to be in phoenix for the holiday. a professor who had known me i was a freshman confronted me in her office just before the fall semesterand . what happened to you, saeed is i stared blankly, then remember this was the part where i was supposed to drive i cried. this was a future i would have to figure out onmy own . but i didn't want to think about it. these are one more night, i wanted to dance at a huge messy party and get blac

that i think the theme throughout the book and i grew up, came up with a classical education and aristotle feature, virtue is a habit and one of the things about habits is they require practice so two different times, i use the idea of sort of what about if you like sort of the gymnasium in which to practice virtue? and what is a strong family, what is a good elite public school, what is a big church community, these are the places where these can be practiced. now, i think church communities are the only ones that do that very well because the elite won't call these virtues. there sort of practices. well, for the reason you stay married and get involved in your kids lives, is because your kids then have the best outcomes and you have the best outcomes. which is the way sociologists talk about it and that the thinking in the chevy cases, the grosse pointe, the ann arbor of america and so you worry about the fertility of that virtue the past down from multiple generations. as you put it and others put it, too many of the liberal elites are unwilling to preach what they practice but it's a g

aristotle also thought mathematics can't really describe your can't really describe our world and nothat, later on when the christian church also agreed geometry is all well and good our world is a fallen world is a corrupt world, certainly not something that can be described by geometry. it's a lot of praise it's amazing it's truth some say it's the only sign that pleased god to bestow on mankind. also kind of irrelevant because our world is nothing in fact like that. and that lasts for about 1700 years. 1700 years from this breakthrough by. [inaudible] until the guy here's a simple mathematical proof. until, until, until 1400 and until pretty much the year 1413. not a famous year for most people that happens to be the year in which a man in florence conducted experiments on perspective. on linear perspective. then he and his friend and artist they developed, established and popular lowrise the theory of linear perspective. initially it's a theory of how to draw things, how do paint three dimensions on a flat surface. so basically there's a vanishing point you can draw a vanish -- an

aristotle taught mathematics can't really prescribed -- or describe our world. on when the christian church agreed, geometry was very nice but our world is a fallen and corrupt world. certainly not something that can be described by geometry. geometry gets all the praise. it pleased god to bestow our mankind but it's also irrelevant because our world is something like that. that lasts for about 1700 years. by euclid until -- simple mathematic truth but until 1400, until pretty much the year 1400 and 13. not a famous year for most people but it's a year in which a man by the name of felipe conducting experiments on perspective. when you're perspective and then he has an artist inflator on, they developed and established a theory of linear perspective. initially it is a theory of how to draw things, how to paint three dimensions on a flat surface. basically there's a vanishing. you can draw a vanish -- anyway, there's a system that is on the horizon, this is a perspective exercise because you can see yeah, it's doing what he wants. like to get back to this. oh. an

i went on to say that came from theory thatom a came from aristotle, and all of these people said therere three orders in society, the one, the few and the many, and they had to balance and the various branches of the government. argument, and it was meaningful to go read, and that is the best thing you can do, is educate yourself. ride the primary sources yourself. read the federalist papers and other works of the founders to make up your mind. host: what are the concerns that hamilton had with what the president has been saying recently? guest: hamilton was extremely concerned that the president would seize the powers that belong to the people. oftook the example corruption, and said what if a president is engaging in conspiracy, and the president people, but that power does not extend to impeachment. the new york governor by contrast or some governors at the time were allowed to have their pardons extend even in the case of impeachment, and hamilton worried this meant a corrupt official who was more interested in his own interest could use his powers to serve himself rather than the