Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Theophrastus, Speussipus and Aristotle

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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
4370 For Aristotle 'good' means purpose, and value is real but relational [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / e. Means and ends
18227 We desire final things just for themselves, and not for the sake of something else [Aristotle]
4381 How can an action be intrinsically good if it is a means to 'eudaimonia'? [Ackrill on Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
18230 No one would choose life just for activities not done for their own sake [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function
398 Each thing that has a function is for the sake of that function [Aristotle]
33 Each named function has a distinctive excellence attached to it [Aristotle]
23909 Wearing a shoe is its intrinsic use, and selling it (as a shoe) is its coincidental use [Aristotle]
15772 A thing's active function is its end [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
5154 Excess and deficiency are bad for virtue, just as they are for bodily health [Aristotle]
5268 Disreputable pleasures are only pleasant to persons with diseased perception [Aristotle]
5870 Everything seeks, not a single good, but its own separate good [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
5229 The more virtuous and happy a person is, the worse the prospect becomes of ending life [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
90 All altruism is an extension of self-love [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
5262 Only lovable things are loved, and they must be good, or pleasant, or useful [Aristotle]
5263 Most people want to be loved rather than to love, because they desire honour [Aristotle]
22582 Spirit [thumos] is the capacity by which we love [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds
101 Slaves can't be happy, because they lack freedom [Aristotle]
2689 Good people enjoy virtuous action, just as musicians enjoy beautiful melodies [Aristotle]
5142 Oxen, horses and children cannot be happy, because they cannot perform fine deeds [Aristotle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
92 Self-love benefits ourselves, and also helps others [Aristotle]
2810 Selfishness is wrong not because it is self-love, but because it is excessive [Aristotle]
5243 The best people exercise their virtue towards others, rather than to themselves [Aristotle]
3559 For Aristotle, true self-love is love of the higher parts of one's soul [Aristotle, by Annas]