[MD] on Truth and Arete

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi Ron, FYI ...
Have you also seen on MoQ.org the essay by Sam Norton on Eudaimonia ?
Regards
Ian

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:49 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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> What is often overshadowed in Aristotles work is his Nicomachian ethic which posits eudaimonia
> as the ultimate good. It has stong interdependance with virtue and knowledge.
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> Aristotle claims that "every art and every scientific inquiry, and similarly every action and purpose, may be said to
> aim at some good. Hence 'the good' has been well defined as that at which all things aim." According to Aristotle,
> the hierarchy of human purposes aim at eudaimonia as the highest, most inclusive end. This is the end that everyone
> in fact aims at, and it is the only end towards which it is worth undertaking means. Eudaimonia is constituted,
> according to Aristotle, not by honor, or wealth, or power, but by rational activity in accordance with virtue over a
> complete life. Such activity manifests the virtues of character, including, honesty, pride, friendliness, and wittiness;
> the intellectual virtues, such as rationality in judgment; and non-sacrificial (i.e. mutually beneficial) friendships and
> scientific knowledge (knowledge of things that are fundamental and/or unchanging is the best)."-wiki
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