To properly spot and judge a hypocrite, we must first spot the virtue they claim to have, and the vice (the bad behavior) they actually have. And nobody crafted lists of vices and virtues quite like Aristotle.

In this episode, we explore this Aristotelian list of vices and virtues, from the "father of virtue ethics" himself, to see how they contradictorily clash to create what we would call: a hypocrite.

The virtues and vices from this list, taken from Aristotle's work "Nicomachean Ethics," include his list of intellectual virtues, and his (more relevant to hypocrisy) list of moral virtues.

And while these vices and virtues might be ancient (4th century BCE, to be precise), they're still clearly observable in examples of hypocrisy today. Some vices and virtues change with time, but some are simply tim ...