Mark Hopwood

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Elucidations · Episode 50: Greg Salmieri discusses the Aristotelian good life and productive work · 21 Aug 2013 podcast

So, I mean, I guess, you know, we sitting here could put ourselves into one of those kinds of lives.

I mean, we're all in some sense philosophers, but that seems like it's not going to be the case for most people.

You can imagine a lot of people listening to this thinking, well...

I'm not sure I'm doing any of those things.

I'm not sure I'm living a philosophical, political, or a pleasure-seeking life.

So, I mean, is there a way in which Aristotle's idea here is really going to be relevant to us and the kind of lives that we lead?

So Aristotle kind of has this negative view of the life of a craftsman to the extent that that's someone who is directed fundamentally towards producing things for someone else that will fit into someone else's life.

But that's what their whole life is directed towards.

I mean, I know something that you've been interested in, something that you've written about is his attitude, not just to the overall life of such a person, but to the specific activity of production, his views on that.

So maybe you could say a little bit about that.

What does Aristotle think about productive activity, the kind of activity in which a craftsman is engaged?

So someone might think that, you know, producing tires or something is just a good thing to do.

But Aristotle's going to want to say something like, well, you know, it's only good to produce tires if you think it's good to produce cars.

And, you know, then it's only good to produce cars if you think it's good to go somewhere in the way that a car gets you there.

Right.

It's only good to go somewhere in the way that a car gets you there if there's something there to get to once you're there.

And so on and so forth until you reach one of these kind of end points.

I mean, is that the basic?

So maybe you could say something a little bit more about that, because on the face of it, there's an intuitive kind of idea there, right?

Study for the sake of study.

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