Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I

I am writing a book! If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy), submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I won’t spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about just a few sections of book 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The lectures focuses on Aristotle's argument to the conclusion that the good, for a human being, is exercising the virtues. The argument stems from the claim that happiness or flourishing or eudaemonia is the 'final' and 'self-sufficient' end of human action, and that happiness, for a human, is using rationality, which is, for Aristotle, exercising the virtues. That is an absurdly brief statement of the argument. You have to watch the video to understand what is going on. Part of the point of this, though, is that, for Aristotle, the reason to act virtuous, or morally, is that doing so makes one happy.