PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Eudaimonia, Special Functions

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Philosophy (PHIL)
• Course: PHIL 001
• Professor: cline

Document Summary

Pleasure, wealth, honor, as the masses and some sophisticates claim. You can lose these things but happiness is not what can be lost easily. Happiness is not equivalent with virtue > virtue is necessary but not sufficient for happiness. It is required but can not guarantee happiness. Doing whatever you do well as a human being. Being alive aka taking in nutrients and growing > plants, animals, and humans. Perception, instinct, and feelings > animals and humans. **happiness will consist in a life of rational activity. Rational: intellect; it has reason, which enables us to contemplate, reflect, explain, make inferences, take account of something, and such. Intellectual excellences (correlate with reason/rationality): wisdom, intellectual accomplishments. Excellences of character (toward behavior and emotions): moderation, open handedness, etc virtues/excellences (arete) as good dispositions. The dispositions we praise are the ones we call excellences. Someone who excels at some skill or art-super tolerant.