Affiliation:
1. Department of Philosophy, King’s College LondonStrand, London WC2R 2LSUK
Abstract
Two crucial questions, if unanswered, impede our understanding of Aristotle’s account of pleasure in en x.4-5: (1) What are the activities that pleasure is said to complete? (2) In virtue of what does pleasure always accompany these activities? The answers fall in place if we read Aristotle as responding to the Delian challenge that the finest, best and most pleasant are not united in one and the same thing (en i.8). I propose an ‘ethical’ reading of en x.4 according to which the best activities in question are those integral to the exercise of virtue.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History
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