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aristotle happiness

shared by Daryl Bambic on 29 Apr 15 - No Cached

But it doesn’t follow that since his ideas on some things were silly, his ideas on all things were silly
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reason a central place in human life
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Money is clearly only a means to an end, therefore it can’t be the main good
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But what really determines the quality of our lives is not our circumstances themselves but what we make of them
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Success (or honour) can’t be the main good either, since (a) it’s too dependent on other people and the whims of fortune,
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Pleasure is certainly not the main good,
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lives that are fit only for cattle
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He recognises three types of relationships: the useful, the pleasant and the ones based on mutual admiration.
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main good for a human being is reason, since it is the characteristic human capacity, the one we don’t share with other animals.
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theoretical (concerning the contemplation of unchangeable truths)
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ractical
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intellectual virtues
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virtues of character
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Excess and deficiency
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unction argument
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erything in the universe had a purpose
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essential nature of a thing or creature: just like the purpose of an acorn was to develop into an oak tree, that of human beings was to develop their unique human capacities, the most important of which was the ability to reason
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in true Aristotelian spirit, is a mean between ‘anything goes’ and a totally prescriptiv
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