AHSS*1100 Midterm: ELD1and2
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Ex. taste of good or long hot shower. Ex. finish painting or home team win. To be hedonistic, agree with view that enjoyment rather than phy pleasure is key to good life. A life is good if filled with pleasure, freed of pain. Smth that is worth pursuing for its own sake + valuable in its own right. Think of you in your death bed and reflecting on what you have achieved or how you have grown and flourished. Form of happiness is eudaimonia which means happiness or flourishing + it"s the reason why we do things. N says were not just hedonists despite having reasons like happiness to plug in. Ppl would rather not plug in just to know that what they"re experiencing is real, but plato makes us question how we can even know what is real. Aristotle had great influence on virtue ethics. Politicians keep honoural capacities: general ship, management + rhetoric.
