PHIL 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Van Stephenson, Eudaimonia, Moral Agency
8 Oct 2017
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You can bring printed or hand written notes, printed readings. A piece of reading material + what is the argument supporting this paragraph. Unpacking the notion of flourishing, eudaimonia, and the world of virtue (excellence) Answer questions: what should i do, how should i act, in order to become a moral agent in the world. Aristotle instead beginning: whom should i become; who should i be; what kind of person should i model myself into through my actions. Making each other into person, sustaining ourselves and conditions. Engineering parts of ourselves together in order for an agent to thrive towards eudaimonia, the final cause. Eudaimonia, the only thing that is desirable in its own rights. U are desiring things for your own happiness/flourishing. The condition of being virtuous (excellence: e. g. an excellent bed/axe/horse, we must put ourselves together in a certain kind of way, we have various options for us to engineer ourselves - deliberation for us to live.
