Neuroscience and Human Freedom | Prof. James Madden
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Principle of Responsibility Is Central to Human Happiness
For Aristotle, all things being equal is better to be good than it is to be lucky. A life live for which one can give reasons and not just any reasons but good reasons is the best sort of life. Adjustification for acting in terms of a merely apparent good is not justification for acting, but self-harm. Long-term, maybe irreversible delusions about what actually constitutes our good is how Aristotle defines vice.
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