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NE Book 1
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- 1What is Book 1 about?Happiness and the highest good
- 2What is the argument for ends?Every activity we do is for a good end
The highest ends are ends in themselves
This is the supreme good
Subordinate ends are means to higher ends - 3What is the study of good a science of?A political science
(as it is about the means to the highest ends)
Not a precise science - what is best for me may not be best for you
So there is only a rough outline of the good - 4What is the supreme good?Happiness
- 5What is happiness?Some people equate it with pleasure, but this works with animals, who we are higher than.
Others argue that honours is good, but honours are conderred as recognition for goodness, so there is something greater than reward - 6Why is happiness the highest good?Because we choose happiness as an end in itself - even intelligence and virtue are not good in themselves
- 7What is goodness?Functionality:
If a someone plays the flute well, we call them a flutist
Function as a distinctive activity - 8When is happiness important?All the time - about all your life, not just brief moments
This then means someone is happy only after death
Good person will behave in a virtuous manner even in grave situation - 9How is the soul divided?Irrational:
vegetative (nutrition and growth) & appetitive (impulses)
Rational:
controls these impusles - virtuous person has greater rationality - 10What is the Ergon argument?Question of do we have a purpose:
There may be something wrong in saying that the carpenter has a purpose
as there is a difference between a purpose and a job
Part of the potentiality: main function of a human
LESBOS RULE: maybe we should fit ourselves to find a purpose, instead of expecting there is one to be molded - 11What is our function?REASON!
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