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The article says directly: “One might even suffer greatly and still live a virtuous—that is: a good—life. When Aristotle speaks of a “happy” life, he means a fu
by dcre 2y ago
The article says directly: “One might even suffer greatly and still live a virtuous—that is: a good—life. When Aristotle speaks of a “happy” life, he means a fulfilled or flourishing life rather than a pleasurable one.”
Suffering certainly does make it harder to be virtuous, but you can interpret that not as disregarding the poor but as giving even more justification for orienting society toward satisfying everyone’s basic needs.
- Xen9 2y agoIdea: Web page of every phrase in (Koine) greek that meant different thing to the ancient great philosophers than in English language today. This'd help to get a good picture of the Greeks at once for one usually stumbles upon the "different interpretations" slowly.
- parenthesis 2y agoThere are these books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Terms-Historical-Lexicon/dp/0814765521 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Terms-Historica... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Vocabulary-J-Urmson/dp/0715623354 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Vocabulary-J-Ur... I have the second one, which I found useful when studying ancient Greek philosophy in English translation.
- Xen9 2y agoI will have to make an analysis of regular expressions of heuristically most useful & heuristically highest quality academic source materials.
- namaria 2y agoKoine greek postdates Plato, Aristotle and Socrates by around 200 years.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoTo go even farther, virtue, to any notable extent, only accumulates under hardship. There’s very little virtue to be had in enduring insults when living in a palace, and waited on hand and foot by servants, but quite notable to endure insults when living in severe hardship.
- dcre 2y agoI think that’s a more Christian interpretation. I don’t think Aristotle would go that far.