What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life | Curio

What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life

8 mins | May 28, 2017

What people want are worthwhile lives and not necessarily happy ones. The only thing students tend to know about the Aztecs is that they engaged in human sacrifice. But before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, Sebastian Purcell bring you their philosophically rich culture, with people they called 'philosophers', and their specious counterparts the 'sophists'."

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