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Single Idea 5143
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
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Full Idea
It is popularly believed that some good and evil, such as honours, or disasters of children, can happen to a dead man, inasmuch as they can happen to a live one without his being aware of them.
Gist of Idea
Some good and evil can happen to the dead, just as the living may be unaware of a disaster
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1100a17)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.82
A Reaction
This suggests 'internalist' and 'externalist' accounts of happiness, with eudaimonia being the externalist view. If an architect designs a spectacular building, and it collapses the day after they die, that has to be a disaster for the architect.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[Greek concept of fulfilment/happiness/flourishing]:
1646
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Socrates was the first to put 'eudaimonia' at the centre of ethics
[Socrates, by Vlastos]
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14178
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Happiness is secure enjoyment of what is good and beautiful
[Plato]
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18673
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Eudaimonia is said to only have final value, where reason and virtue are also useful
[Aristotle, by Orsi]
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5127
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Does Aristotle say eudaimonia is the aim, or that it ought to be?
[McDowell on Aristotle]
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5143
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Some good and evil can happen to the dead, just as the living may be unaware of a disaster
[Aristotle]
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5996
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Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness
[Critolaus, by White,SA]
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13302
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Life is like a play - it is the quality that matters, not the length
[Seneca]
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5068
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'Eudaimonia' means 'having a good demon', implying supreme good fortune
[Taylor,R]
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5120
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What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values
[Harman]
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8005
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'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well
[MacIntyre]
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21836
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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia
[Nussbaum, by Flanagan]
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21835
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We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish
[Flanagan]
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20199
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Nowadays we doubt the Greek view that the flourishing of individuals and communities are linked
[Zagzebski]
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4324
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Animals and plants can 'flourish', but only rational beings can have eudaimonia
[Hursthouse]
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7099
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With a broad concept of flourishing, it might be possible without the virtues
[Statman]
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