Michael Prinzing

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83 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 5 Feb

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So like we said, this kind of goes all the way back to Plato and Aristotle.

They used to argue that virtue is vital for well-being.

But then there are all these other people, other philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche, who say, no, no, no, no, no.

Virtue is good for other people.

It's nice for other people if I'm patient and kind and nice to them.

But it's not good for me.

What would be good for me is to get all the good stuff and to leave you with nothing.

So-

we thought let's look at some of these virtues that seem like the kinds that were like, maybe Nietzsche was right.

Where like compassion is a motivation to help other people to alleviate suffering, misfortune, that kind of thing.

And so to exercise compassion, to be a compassionate person,

you have to be there with the suffering and the misfortune and you have to be there trying to help and to do something about it.

And so people have coined this term compassion fatigue to describe exactly this thing where like you just get drained by it, right?

Or like patience,

You know, patience is only possible in a situation where there's something difficult, annoying, frustrating going on.

Otherwise you're not being patient.

Exactly.

There's nothing to be patient about if everything's going well.

So the thought is we're going to look at these virtues that seem intuitively like they're not good for you.

And we zoomed in on specific moments in people's lives.

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