Full Idea
Nussbaum says the post-Aristotelian philosophers did much more than simply advancing and refining Aristotle's ethics. They advanced eudaimonics by explicitly endorsing the medical analogy.
Gist of Idea
Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia
Source
report of Martha Nussbaum (The Therapy of Desire [1994]) by Owen Flanagan - The Really Hard Problem 4 'Eudaimoncs'
Book Reference
Flanagan,Owen: 'The Really Hard Problem' [MIT 2007], p.112
A Reaction
Since Aristotle is all about the successful functioning of the psuche, this idea is obviously implicit in his original texts. It needs a positive concept of mental health, and not a mere absence of mental illness. See the Mindapples campaign.
Related Idea
Idea 21835 We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan]