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Oct 17, 2017 · On this definition, Aristotle is not a hedonist. For Aristotle, pleasure accompanies being ethically good for the phronemos (the man of practical wisdom). For the rest of us, we can have these signals go terribly wrong (this is all in Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics).
Apr 20, 2004 · Aristotle (1095a15–22) claimed that we all agree that the good is eudaimonia but there is disagreement among us about what eudaimonia is. Similarly, ethical hedonists agree with one another that the good is pleasure, but there is some disagreement among them, and among non-hedonists too, about what pleasure is.
Apr 25, 2019 · Aristotle differs from Plato in the Republic in insisting that a minimum of external goods is a prerequisite for human well-being. But he rejects hedonism, one of whose advocates was Eudoxus and one of whose strongest enemies was Speusippus.
Aristotle treats happiness as an activity, not as a state. He uses the word energeia, which is the root of our word energy, to characterize happiness. The point is that happiness consists of a certain way of life, not of certain dispositions.
May 1, 2001 · Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from the theoretical sciences. Its methodology must match its subject matter—good action—and must respect the fact that in this field many generalizations hold only for the most part.
Nov 23, 2005 · Aristotle, Rhetoric I: 11 gives a version of the standard Platonic-Academic definition of pleasure rather than that of the ethical works listed just above. Book II: 1–11 discusses specific emotions, characterizing most as forms of pleasure and pain. Aristotle, Topica.
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Feb 7, 2016 · His partners in the dialogue are, on the one hand, Plato and Aristotle, critics of hedonism, and, on the other, the Hellenistic hedonists: the Epicureans and the Cyrenaics.
