Virtue Is Its Own Reward

Marcus Aurelius sorts everyone who has ever done someone a favor into three types, and only the last one, who acts and forgets it completely, meets his own standard for virtue. Derren Brown takes that test personally, weighing it against Freud's suspicion that no good deed is quite what it looks like, and our stubborn belief that we are kinder than average. He finds his best evidence somewhere unexpected: not in friendship, but in a theater, doing the same show for the thousandth time and simply moving on. Then Marcus asks a harder question: what actually counts as a good, once you strip away everything money can buy?