PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Episteme, Techne, Eudaimonia
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Philosophy 2 - individual morality and social justice. He died before he could finish his work but his son nicomacheus whom he named after his father, edited his father"s work named it nicomachean ethics. Mental note: edited works always change the meaning of the work slightly, so the meaning has been distorted slightly. Pragmatic = logical, practical ethics = way of life. Aristotle therefore created an outline for what it means to achieve eudaemonia = a flourishing life, but also how to achieve it; hence was born the famous quote. If, like archers, we have a target to aim at, we are more likely to hit the right mark . Goods are things that we aim for, like the archer; however there is a supreme good or supreme end that we aim for which is referred to as eudaemonia. All acts are for a greater act and eudaemonia is the act that all acts lead to the pursuit of.
