PHI 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Good Life, Intellectual Virtue, Storge
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What is the difference between your desire and your idea of what you ought to do? (cid:1) Descriptive: depicts the kinds of values people have and the sorts of principles they in fact use to guide decisions and actions. Normative: the values that ought to give ones decisions and actions. You think that you are living a good life, but it"s not . Aristotle: we should expect the precision of the answer to match the precision of the question. Endoxa: the which are accepted by everyone, or most people, or the wise. Why is the (cid:1) (cid:1) life described a good one? (cid:1) We need two types of justification: justification of the goal, justification of the means (the way of living that should attain the goal) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: buddha and the middle way: The eightfold path promotes three essentials: ethical conduct, mental discipline, wisdom (cid:1) (cid:1) The aggregates of grasping: form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness.
