PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Vise, Intellectual Virtue, First Principle
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Chapter 3: each person judges well what he knows, and is a good judge of this. Masses: something straight forward, obvious, e. g. pleasure, wealth, honour. It is best to ignore one"s personal feelings when preserving the truth, especially for philosophers. Chapter 7: good varies b/w actions and skills. If everything that is done has some end, this will be the good among things done, and if there are several ends, these will be the goods: the chief good manifestly is something complete. Noblest is that which is the most just, and best is being healthy. He is called blessed because of the amount of potential he has, since happiness requires complete virtue and life. Chapter 10: good and evil is thought to happen only to the dead, because it can happen to those alive however they will are not aware and possible changes in their fortunes. Chapter 11: when friends do well/badly it ahs some effect on the dead.
