Single Idea 18673

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia]

Full Idea

For Aristotle, what sets eudaimonia apart from things like reason and virtue is that it is exclusively finally valuable; ...reason and virtue are valuable also for contributing to other things, such as happiness.

Gist of Idea

Eudaimonia is said to only have final value, where reason and virtue are also useful

Source

report of Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE]) by Francesco Orsi - Value Theory 2.2

Book Reference

Orsi,Francesco: 'Value Theory' [Bloomsbury 2015], p.29


A Reaction

This makes it sound as if eudaimonia is a super-value, and superior to virtue, but I don't think that is right. Eudaimonia just seems to be success in the areas that matter.