PRTO1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hedonic Treadmill, Eudaimonia, Habituation
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M believes you should trick people into believing you don"t want power in order to get it more easily. Conception of virtue: true virtue is a prudent mixture of virtue and vice. Need both to be successful (cunning and bravery/honor/brute strength: a good leader needs to know how to embrace animalistic qualities, a good model of a leader is a centaur (half man half horse) Is it better to be feared than loved: both, but choose fear if you have to, if people get mad at you, they"ll lose their love for you really quickly. People love when the relationship is beneficial and once they lose that benefit you lose them. If you trust someone to love you and support you you"re relying on them rather than yourself: fear is easier to control than love. The ultimate goal as a human being is to achieve happiness. Ethics: all of our actions seek ends (everything we do has a specific goal)
