PHL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eudaimonia, Summum Bonum, Exoteric
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Teaches class > get paid > buy a scooter > ride a scooter. Instrumental goods is a tool towards obtaining the highest good. Y is thus more choice worthy than x as x is chosen for y. Absence of final good (ultimate good) renders your deeds futile. If final good exists, then superior to all other instrumental goods. Endoxa the reputable opinion: life of pleasure / gratification, dismisses as it would be life of beasts / too childish, life of contemplation. Choice worthy always doe themselves never for the sake of something else. Nothing else added upon it can make it better. Highest good = human good (eudaimonia) = performing human function well. Human function = rational activity in accordance with virtue. Exoteric logoi rational: calculating deciding strict sense , character, obeys reason, shares in reason. Virtue is a state concerned by choice and decisions.
