PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eudaimonia, Intension
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Happiness according to aristotle is not exhaustible eudaimonia: human flourishing (more powerful and deeper than just happiness. Unique to humans nature of animals is different than that of humans. Self-sufficient in-e(cid:454)hausti(cid:271)le, happi(cid:374)ess i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g (cid:455)ou (cid:449)a(cid:374)t, (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)(cid:859)t la(cid:272)k something and you are perfectly happy. A fallacy in the argument for the supreme good. If partl(cid:455) shared, it (cid:449)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e o(cid:374)e (cid:271)ig thi(cid:374)g. But in several ways it could be many. I have many unrelated goals: different people have many unrelated aims. If there is just one thing that makes us different, it might not necessarily be the most valuable. Aristotle: to know what it is for us to flourish; we need to know who we are. So, it makes sense to look for our characteristic faculties and activity. Aristotle seems to be going from: every action aims at some good. To: there is a good to which all things aim.
