
HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Ethics - Aristotle's Discussion of Responsibility
Aristotle says that the politician needs to have an outline of human happiness. Human happiness involves activity in accordance with virtue, he writes. And it turns out that the virtuous person acts voluntarily. So we have to know more about virtue,. Just as the virtuous person experiences pleasure on the whole when they act virtuously, we must know more about pleasure. This will be something useful for political science, because pleasure is such an important part of human life.
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