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Aristotle, Thiel Fellowship, and Human Greatness w/ Michael Gibson
Episode Length:
69:02
In this episode
- Michael Gibson's origin story
- Meeting Peter Thiel and launching the Thiel Fellowship
- The importance of Aristotle
- Is intelligence enough?
- Failure of philosophy is present in Plato's work...not Aristotle's
- Alexander the Great's major influence
- Inspiration from the immortals
- Why victory is better than happiness
- Friends as a second self
- Gigasoul
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