PHL265H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Practical Reason, Direct Democracy, Root Mean Square
1 Mar 2018
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He says, yes, the chief good is happiness. The highest of all goods achievable by action is happiness i. e. living well and fairing well: eudaemonia: the greek word for happiness recognized by aristotle as a disputed concept. He recognizes that it is not just a subjective state of mind but one where people are actually doing well. He says it is both nal and complete. Final in that it is pursued for its own sake. It is complete in that if you were to attain real happiness there would be nothing left for you to desire. This will greatly contrast hobbes because hobbes believes we are completely ruled by desire. What does happiness really consist of: he notes that happiness is identi ed with living well and fairing well. If it is sharp i. e. if it has those characteristics that allow it to do its function very well. It seems as though bodily organs have the same functions.
