How to Give a Good Gift | Jennifer Rothschild | TEDxUF

Finding the perfect gift is tough. Dr. Jennifer Rothschild, professor of philosophy at the University of Florida, shares her secret to finding the perfect gift. By balancing three crucial elements revealed in her talk, we can all learn to be better gift-givers. Jennifer Rothschild is a philosophy professor at the University of Florida. She specializes in ethics, primarily Aristotle’s ethics of virtue. Her work aims to use philosophy to help us understand what makes actions, people, and whole human lives good or bad. Jennifer has enjoyed using her TEDxUF talk to bring together three of her favorite philosophical topics: gifts, friendship, and the structure of action. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at