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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: society of spirit and “Prot’s ...

2026-11-02T03:19:20Z

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: society of spirit and “Prot’s glasses’s”

In this 1-hour video I talk at length about ethics, wellness, goals,
rationality, and interpersonal affairs. This is a comprehensive
commentary on two previous videos I have done on the topic of
Aristotle’s book titled “Nicomachean Ethics”, though what I say goes
far beyond what Aristotle talks about.
The previous two videos, for context:
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: on goals, institutions, sin of exaggeration (2026-10-25).
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: criticism, happiness, good-spirit-ness (2026-10-26).
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: criticism, happiness, ...

2026-10-27T03:42:51Z

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: criticism, happiness, good-spirit-ness

In this 1-hour video, I continue reading from Aristotle’s Nicomachean
Ethics and commenting at length on it. What I cover here pertains to
matters of critical thinking, criticism, and judgement, how we can
approach the topic of voicing/hearing an opinion, what it means to
have happiness, and the one relationship that governs all others.
This is a continuation of the video I did yesterday on goals,
institutions, sin of exaggeration: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-10-25-nichomachean-ethics-ends-institutions-sin/.
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Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics: on goals, institutions, sin of ...

2026-10-26T03:17:40Z

Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics: on goals, institutions, sin of exaggeration

In this 1-hour video I read from the opening chapter of Nicomachean
Ethics, by Aristotle, and comment at length on themes of ranking goals
in projects, of having a notion of success versus failure, of
determining what we are actually working towards, of what exactly it
means for some realities to be instituted as such, and of the one sin
from which all others derive which is the sin of exaggeration.
Next time I will comment on eudaemonia, which is mistranslated as
“happiness”, but we will get there.
I notice, by the way, that the laptop is too shaky. I will check if I
can fix this next time.
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Letter in a bottle Hello my friend, I have been thinking of you. ...

2026-10-20T03:48:17Z

Letter in a bottle

Hello my friend,
I have been thinking of you. The idea that you might exist moves me.
This morning I realised the possibility you embody. I thought of how
it can be that you are actualised somewhere in this world. It inspired
me to contact you.
We are strangers right now, my friend. I do not know your name, have
never heard your voice, and cannot recognise your face. The waves that
delivered you this bottle are not under my control. You could be close
or somewhere far away in space and time. Though we are not complete
strangers. I actually know you well. I have already felt your presence
in the wind. Even though I live in the mountains, I still fathom the
sea. It will always be with me as openness everlasting. I continue to
envisage myself cutting through the line of the horizon. To go to the
further places where people who are not like me experience the world
as I do.
There is an unmistakable trace to who you are, my friend. It does not
elude me. I write this letter in an effort to approach you, to tell
you that you are not alone. I do it out of curiosity. I am keen on
proving that you exist. I am bent on demonstrating that a certain
potential is made manifest through you. I also write it out of
interest specifically in you. I plan to know you better and am
inexorable in my endeavours: to understand the world you represent
beyond the aspects of personality and the interests we have in common.
If you have read this far, you necessarily are curious like me, my
friend. You already know there is nothing more to this bottle than the
present letter. I have no ordinary gifts for you. Though I am still
offering something special, something I can least afford: my time. You
understand that you have my undivided attention. You sense my vitality
through these words. It is inexhaustible in its creativity. By reading
this letter, you ultimately wish to make sense of the story and from
there to understand a little bit more about its creator.
Words is the best we have, my friend. There is nothing more I can give
you that will stay in your mind as a vivifying force. When you evoke
the memory of what has transpired here, when you think of the author
and of authorship, you shall muster the energy of the heavens and,
with some sustained effort, direct it at will as I do.
Writing to you feels natural, my friend. I have no inhibitions. This
letter communicates a facet of my authentic self even if it remains
generic. We both know, deep in our hearts, that we only ever
appreciate the words we say to each other in earnest; words that are
spoken without regret and with no shame. The rest we forget, even if
we feel strongly about them in the moment. But the honest word stays
with us.
These words are a token of my benevolence towards you, my friend. I
know you will treat them kindly. They will make you contemplate what
has been and shall become. You will wonder what made me do this.
Though you already know the answer: you did. I am writing this letter
because I have dreamt of the place you occupy in the space we coexist.
In dreamscapes I have found what the forms of life in my midst have
been hinting at.
Who are you really, my friend? What is it that made you read this far?
You will consider as much the same way I shall. And there you will
discover that at some level we are one.
Take care,
A feral soul
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Reading ‘Letter in a bottle’ short story I wrote I read out ...

2026-10-20T03:13:01Z

Reading ‘Letter in a bottle’ short story I wrote

I read out loud the story I wrote and published this morning, titled
Letter in a bottle. It is about me writing a letter to a friend whom
I have never met. The text is available here: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-10-19-letter-in-bottle/.
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