PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Everytime, Nicomachean Ethics, Final Good
7 Apr 2016
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Aristotle"s nicomachean ethics book 1 chapter 1, 2, 4, 5, 7. All human actions aim at some good. Some actions are with ends that produce something more than just doing the action. The ends of master arts are more preferred and worthy because the are done for the sake of art. Highest good when we do not make decisions based on something else (desire would be empty and pointless) and is for the sake of its end. The study of good belongs to politics. It lays down the law for what one ought to do and what one ought to refrain from doing. Ends of politics is for the human good. The good of the community > individuals although both can be achieved. We think of politics as a species of economics. Aristotle: politics is fostering the pursuit of the human good (moral issues vs. economic concerns nowadays)
