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- The claim that Aristotle says "ethical virtue... [is] encompassed by pleasure and pain" or something to that effect is utterly and completely false. The the part that says "Aristotle describes ethical virtue as relating to pleasure and pain" is true and comes from Book I and again in Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics.
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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 ).
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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.
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.
Aristotle's ethics, or study of character, is built around the premise that people should achieve an excellent character (a virtuous character, " ethikē aretē " in Greek) by practicing virtue in order to ultimately attain happiness or well-being (eudaimonia). [6]
Apr 20, 2004 · Other major contributors to debate about hedonism include Plato, Aristotle, Mill, Moore, Sidgwick, Ross, and Broad. The discussion below nevertheless proceeds analytically rather than historically, discussing each main form of hedonism in turn.
May 1, 2001 · Aristotle follows Socrates and Plato in taking the virtues to be central to a well-lived life. Like Plato, he regards the ethical virtues (justice, courage, temperance and so on) as complex rational, emotional and social skills.
He must show that while pleasure can threaten morality, it also lies at the heart of human rational perfection. His complex reactions to neutralism (“The good is beyond pleasure and pain”), and to the hedonism of Eudoxus, shape his views about pleasure, activity, and completeness.
