Episode Synopsis "The Refutation of Hedonism - "Nicomachean Ethics" III.4"

Here Aristotle deals with the opinion that the ultimate goal of action is the experience of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. This will take us back to the doctrine that the soul has three parts or faculties and to a discussion about how they relate.

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