PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Puritans, Reflective Equilibrium, Astrocyte
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Summary of last lecture what is happiness, and the problems with aristotle. Pursue different things if you are different persons, because your destination is different: only human can do intellectual contemplation. This is a necessary component of human , and hence constitutive of happiness. What is the function of human? intrinsic and instrumental desisure if you have a function, it is talking about instrumental meaning. You are being valuable for something in life, it"s your life, and our individual life, pursuits, tates, capacities and enjoyment these are what make life worth living or not, So human being, as such , have function , which is talking about for other stuff , It"s not what you have in your life, it"s something else in your life that make you a tool , a slave. So note the distinction between instrumental good for something else instrinsic godd for itself human. So human as such , don"t need function virtue thics.
