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Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics: An Overview

Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics: An Overview

Sabou, Sorin

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Philosophy

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1532659911
ISBN13: 9781532659911
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Oct 8 2018
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a study about the meaning of happiness (εὐδαιμονία) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (EN). It is argued that εὐδαιμονία in EN means actuality, and it has to be interpreted through the lenses of two metaphors used by Aristotle in EN 1.7 1098a21 and 10.6 1176a30: the perimeter of good and the imprint of happiness. To explain the meaning of happiness Aristotle first has to delineate the perimeter of good of human beings, and he does that with the help of two criteria: the final end [τέλος] and the function of humanity [ἔργον ἀνθρώπου]. These two criteria are metaphysical concepts which describe the good as the final metaphysical aim of every person, and the best every person can be. This metaphysical teleological aim is the actuality of the soul according with excellence. This is the perimeter within which Aristotle enquires about εὐδαιμονία--the good of humans.

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