01:730:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Substantial Form, Nicomachean Ethics, Final Good
10 Apr 2018
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If you look at the canopy of being, you can see our fundamentally distinct nature: distinction between form vs matter. It is not the material component that"s the important bit, all the matter we see is in form. Two principles: principle of non-contradiction, principle of causality. Cannot say something is true and also not true. Material: points to the matter, material principle of the statue; made of bronze. Formal: soul; 1st actuality (form) of the living body, the soul is the form of a living thing. Final: eudaimonia (happiness; traditional translation, not the best word for this, discuss more next class ) If it did there is no final good. The final good is happiness (aristotle was an optimist) Desirable- in itself/ want for its own sake comprehensive / complete stable/durable. Getting into shape -make analogies to athletics and olympics (milo) etc.
