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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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The good is 'that at which all things aim' [Aristotle]
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5128
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Each category of existence has its own good, so one Good cannot unite them [Aristotle]
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5129
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There should be one science of the one Good, but there are many overlapping sciences [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Intelligence and sight, and some pleasures and honours, are candidates for being good in themselves [Aristotle]
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5135
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Goods are external, of the soul, and of the body; those of the soul (such as action) come first [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Pleasure is not the Good, and not every pleasure is desirable [Aristotle]
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23
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The masses believe, not unreasonably, that the good is pleasure [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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Clearly perfect conduct will involve both good intention and good action [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / h. Good as benefit
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Wealth is not the good, because it is only a means [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Happiness seems to involve virtue, or practical reason, or wisdom, or pleasure, or external goods [Aristotle]
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25
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You can be good while asleep, or passive, or in pain [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
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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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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Aristotle is unsure about eudaimonia because he is unsure what people are [Nagel on Aristotle]
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5132
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Goods like pleasure are chosen partly for happiness, but happiness is chosen just for itself [Aristotle]
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30
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Happiness is perfect and self-sufficient, the end of all action [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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The best life is that of the intellect, since that is in the fullest sense the man [Aristotle]
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100
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The happy life is in accordance with goodness, which implies seriousness [Aristotle]
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39
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Happiness needs total goodness and a complete life [Aristotle]
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5139
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If happiness can be achieved by study and effort, then it is open to anyone who is not corrupt [Aristotle]
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5144
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Happiness is activity in accordance with complete virtue, for a whole life, with adequate external goods [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
4374
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For Aristotle, pleasure is the perception of particulars as valuable [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure
383
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God feels one simple pleasure forever [Aristotle]
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5270
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Intellectual pleasures are superior to sensuous ones [Aristotle]
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There are pleasures of the soul (e.g. civic honour, and learning) and of the body [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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If we criticise bodily pleasures as licentious and bad, why do we consider their opposite, pain, to be bad? [Aristotle]
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96
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Nobody would choose the mentality of a child, even if they had the greatest childish pleasures [Aristotle]
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97
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There are many things we would want even if they brought no pleasure [Aristotle]
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98
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It is right to pursue pleasure, because it enhances life, and life is a thing to choose [Aristotle]
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99
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If happiness were mere amusement it wouldn't be worth a lifetime's effort [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure
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Some things are not naturally pleasant, but become so through disease or depravity [Aristotle]
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While replenishing we even enjoy unpleasant things, but only absolute pleasures when we are replenished [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure
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Feeling inappropriate pleasure or pain affects conduct, and is central to morality [Aristotle]
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49
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Character is revealed by the pleasures and pains people feel [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
84
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The greater the pleasure, the greater the hindrance to thought [Aristotle]
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