PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Koinonia, Nicomachean Ethics, The Good Life
16 Jan 2014
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Aristotle - metaphysical and metaphorical matters: 1 the good life distinguished from life (ordinary life): Jan. 16, 2014: the good life: living with reason according to moral and intellectual arete, life: ordinary necessities, bodily pleasures, basic economic goods. 5. 2 the good life involves living together: it"s absurd to think that a person alone can be mekarios, for anthropos is politikon (social) and made to live together. Host of goods, purposes, feelings, desires bound up with being zoom politikon: Shame, honor, love, friendship, respect, etc: philia. 6. 1 anthropoli have to live together in koinonia (community, looser association of community) 6. 2 every koinonia has a particular kind of philia. 7. 1 dist. wide sense of dikaios (morality) from narrower sense: dist. justice. If someone lived alone on a hilltop, they would have no dikaion in the narrow or particular sense, since they have nobody with whom to share goods.
