Thanks to Dave C., who did a very good job of navigating us all through the Theory of Moral Sentiments.
On the 23rd June at 7pm in the same venue (Ashton's Clonskeagh) I will moderate the next one. As well as being a bugger for the bottle, Aristotle wrote many works that are frequently invoked as being strong ancient influences on economic thought. All of his books, by their nature, have relevance to economics but some can be thought of as more directly relevant than others.
Rather than discuss the Politics, i would like instead to discuss the Nicomachean Ethics which carries on from the theme of ancient books that are now increasingly relevant as economics looks more to behavioural foundations. In particular, the Ethics contains some very famous discussions of happiness and how to live a good life that echo very strongly in modern discussions around well-being, procedural justice etc., Indeed, Michael posted recently about some papers that direcly incorporate some Aristotlean concepts
http://gearybehaviourcenter.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedonic-adaptation-and-role-of-decision.html
A hardcopy can be purchased anywhere and a free soft-copy is available below
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whisky every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.
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