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Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Aristotle's Theory of Happiness

Happiness is not this individual psychological feeling of pleasure. It's this over all state that you've led the good life, which means, for aristotle, that you are locked into social relationships that promoted the whole. So do it's just a very social, tialetic s rit that you're still talking about a state of character then? That seems to be a lot of the psychological us. Things are al all subordinate, though, to the concept of happinessis not just obligation.

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