Aristotle’s Wildest Take | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]students can get so wild. It's so unbelievably wild, but Aristotle says the goal of education is leisure. And we forget that the Greek word, the root for school, is leisure. And Aristotle says, "Look, you know, we wage war for peace.

[00:00:13]Like we work for leisure." But leisure is not idleness or amusement, and it's definitely not just resting up so you can get back to work. It is that space that we need to set aside to cultivate the highest parts of us.