About this episode

Joan Baum reviews 'Aristotle - The First Teacher' by Philip Freeman, exploring Aristotle's insights on happiness, art, and virtue.

What is happiness? Why do we need art? What is virtue? Aristotle had answers to these deep questions. Now a new book, Aristotle - The First Teacher by Philip Freeman, takes a closer look at the Greek philosopher and how his 2000-year old ideas still resonate today. WSHU’s Joan Baum has this review.

People in this episode

Host: Joan Baum

Topics covered

• happiness
• art
• virtue
• philosophy
• Aristotle
• book review

Keywords

• Aristotle
• Philip Freeman
• book review
• philosophy
• happiness
• art
• virtue

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Aristotle - The First Teacher

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