Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Obstinacy, Stubbornness, and Self-Restraint - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines the difference between self-restraint or control - which is a good moral state - and obstinacy or stubbornness.

People who are obstinate are difficult to convince or persuade, and it is not because they actually know or understand the good and rationally stick with it against resistance or temptation. Instead, they actually resist reason, and are motivated by a desire to win or to be right, and the pleasure or not having to change their views.

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