CAS CC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eudaimonia, Thick Description, Potentiality And Actuality
11 Feb 2017
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Cc 102: lecture #2 notes: the horizon of ethics. -happiness (eudaimonia, ourishing) as activity (energeia) of the soul in conformity with excellence or virtue (aret ): what is characteristic of this sort of energeia? contrast with passive notions of happiness as contentment. Ethical virtue makes us aim at the right target, and practical wisdom makes us use the right means (vi. 12, 1144a8); ethical virtue is acquired through habit (ii. -aristotle makes an important distinction among kinds of friendship (utility, pleasure, true friendship) (2) pleasure: aristotle takes up pleasure not just once but twice in the nal books of the ethics (in vii. 11-14 and x. 1-5) - no one would continually endure the good itself, if that were painful to him (ne 1158a25) -in the end, aristotle has to distinguish two kinds of pleasure: one that"s always connected with a pain (hunger/satiation), one that accompanies an activity that has a completion in itself (thinking/seeing/ ow-like activity)
