 So you might be wondering how exactly is this supposed to work in terms of you know this Living well according to Aristotle. Well each of these parts of what you are has a good So you have the body the newt should have part of the soul, right? The good is is health and well-being and there's lots of goods that aim at that along the way drinking water eating good food Think about you know Epicurus is a necessary desire here we're talking about the bodily well-being sure, you know food and water right food and water exercise These are goods instrumental goods for the well for health of the body then for say The desires for the emotions Right What's a good for the emotions well that this kind of I think it's fair to say Aristotle doesn't talk about this But I think it's fair to say that Epicurus is tranquility plays in it comes into play here, you know That's the not the best, but that's probably the healthiest of These emotional states. It's emotional well-being is tranquility. You you don't get very far by being agitated or stressed or Stimulated with one of those emotions for too much too long, right? It wears you out emotionally speaking So yes, you know tranquility for the emotions that that sure seems like a good For the emotions for Desires for the appetites are you're gonna have to learn which ones you should indulge in or which ones you shouldn't be You know absolute self-denial is probably a bad idea Just complete a set of so yeah that for Aristotle. That's gonna be a bad idea over Indulgence is also gonna be a bad idea don't just give it to every desire whatsoever So you have to master these Appetites you have to master these emotions and tranquility is probably gonna be it for the rational part of the soul The goods of the intellect is knowledge, right and your Aristotle mentions that like the pure scientific knowledge Knowledge of truth and error about the the world around you investigating that but practical knowledge knowing how to do things And knowing how the world not only knowing You know how the world works that'd be the scientific knowledge, but how to do something with that You know, maybe to can to kind of compare contrast you have You know physics and engineering these are two very different things now Physics is knowledge the truth of the causal relationships between material objects and engineering is well, okay So that's physics. How do I take physics and make a building or do I do I build an engine, right? So that's those are the goods of the intellect and Then he talks about moral goods now that this might seem a little bit confusing. It's like way I thought we were dealing with morality The yes, you are however when he's talking about moral goods he's talking about the will and Probably specifically that the habits and the goods here. He says liberality and self-mastery and Liberality is not necessarily freedom. He's probably talking about something like Generosity towards other people. He doesn't mean give everything away and become poor He means, you know to the extent that you can have a concern for others and take care of them a good society So for Aristotle, even the good of the individual extends out to the good of society Hey So with the will you have to have a good will towards other people's, you know We still use that phrase today right talk about having good will towards our fellow person And aerosols. Yeah, absolutely. You got to have a good will towards others You got to have decisions that not only consider yourself, but other people It's probably a remarkable difference between that and and glaucomne right glaucomne like now you don't look after yourself Now Hobbes was several centuries many centuries after Aristotle but maybe Aristotle has the same thing of minds like look if you're gonna have well-being of yourself You got to have a good will towards others so this liberality and Self-mastery right discipline is another good word for this You've got to be to train yourself to make the right decisions and not only a habitual basis, but You know on unique her or new circumstances where you haven't had to make this sort of decision before but you know Yeah, you have to make this decision I had to train your will to be able to make the right decision what we might also call strength of will Okay Now these are all goods Health you know physical health emotional tranquility intellectual knowledge and Self-mastery of the will and when these are working together in the proper way Then you have happiness then you have living well right and the good life All these parts of you are working together in concert and unison using happiness So Aristotle tells us That happiness is produced when these goods are working in the right way Now there's got to be some kind of balance and kind of control and That that's nice. That's good as far as it goes. But how's that supposed to be achieved? Well, you know, you've got these four parts to you, right? You've got the body the emotions and appetites the intellect and the will Well, one of these has to be You know kind of in control of the others one of these has to Dictate to the others and the others have to be subordinate to to the one, right? and for Aristotle The the goods right the one that that everything else has to be subordinate to it That's the intellect, right? The intellect is going to guide and inform everything else everything else must Conform to what the intellect tells you now the the idea behind this is that sometimes there can be You know kind of a divergence in self, right? You know what we're talking about appetites taste is like a really important thing for appetites and we really love our tastes and For health of the body. Well, there's there's you know, there's the goods of the health of the body Well, quite often taste and and health don't go together But data chips right classic case, but data chips. Well, this is where the intellect steps in and has to you know inform decisions and form oneself about bodily health right what Foods should actually be consumed what exercise should you take on? What activities do you have to take on for bodily health? Same thing with emotion emotion could take you in a wide variety of directions really easily And you know just indulging in emotion can lead you to a lot of chaos pretty quickly Well, you know the intellect needs to step in and Inform emotion to help it achieve that tranquility that stability, you know, even within itself All right, what activities what practices what truths do you have to become aware of in order to gain that? Tranquility in order to gain that stability You know and there's actually lots of things that the intellect can help you with Certain activities that would help with tranquility as I've mentioned it before miles will say it again right being out in parks Helps with tranquility getting exercise getting some sunlight helps with tranquility that emotional well-being In fact, if you don't have that no more more study show that tends to Corrode one's emotional well-being. Yeah Even just becoming aware of what emotions you're experiencing paying attention to them trying to find the cause of those emotions Having that sort of interior Investigation right this mint that's a intellect act intellectual activity trying to discover what emotions you're experiencing He was just trying to name them right start with them the four basic ones mad glad sad scared and then it's like, okay What am I feeling right now? I feel okay. I'm feeling kind of sad. Why do I feel sad? Well, it was because the you know, I you know got some mean emails from co-workers, okay, right that even that will help with stability mental stability emotional stability and Emotional tranquility, but the intellect has to figure that out Your emotions might just tell you I'm gonna go cry Something's anything wrong with crying, but if you're doing all the time, that's all you're doing. Well It's not gonna help with tranquility something. You know shoot your intellect. It's gonna tell you no go ahead and cry You know sometimes I go ahead and cry you need a good cry go do it What else even the will The intellect is gonna have to inform the will You know your will can It could be really sloppy and it could be really weak and you will could be really disciplined and you got to take on those activities and and you know Exercise the will and much like you exercise the body. You got to have that discipline Right that strength of will to make the right decision And that's gonna be hard. Yeah, you have to inform the will as much as you possibly can to make the right decision So for Aristotle was gonna keep all this oh by the way and and the intellect is Also going to inform itself And so what if the only part of the body that actually can do this or a part of the Part of the person that can actually do this your intellect is the only thing capable of discovering whether the intellect has gone wrong Whether it has the incorrect information that doesn't say it always will or necessarily will but if anything's gonna do it It's gonna be the intellect Right, it's gonna be the intellect that's gonna determine whether the intellect is actually achieved right knowledge so You know, it's kind of all to say that for Aristotle the intellect Right of the four parts of you the intellect is the most important because it's gonna guide everything else It's gonna got everything else and when the intellect is working. Well, everything else is gonna work. Well That's how you achieve happiness You