Virtue & Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer

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.
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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

[@MrJaredbarton]

Excellent.

[@PulsatingShadow]

I have seen Mr Land be described as a virtue ethicist several times. It makes even more sense when you consider what "Eudiamon" actually means: a good attendant spirit, or AI companion.

[@realHampson]

this is great 👍

[@dileepvr]

Prof. Redemer keeps a copy of Logicomix within view of the camera. Shoutout to Christos Papadimitriou.

[@reaganwiles_art]

Aristotle, unlike plato, did not have a deep and abiding intuition of Truth but frittered away his energies on pieces and parts and Analysis believing that rationality that reason was the ultimate Human Experience having never himself experienced Revelation as did Plato. Plato and Aristotle lived in completely different worlds, Aristotle was very superficial in contrast to Plato