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Truth and Universal Assent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

C.A. Kirwan
C.A. Kirwan*
Affiliation:
Exeter College, Oxford
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Extract

One of the theses defended by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics books VII and X is that pleasure is good (VII. 13, 1153b4) or is one of the good things (X. 2, 1172b26): and Aristotle thinks that it follows from this that the best thing is a pleasure, or is pleasure in a certain way (VII. 13, 1153b26). Among his arguments for the latter we find the following:

The fact that all things, both brutes and men, pursue pleasure is an indication that the best thing is in a certain way that (VII. 13, 1153b25-6).

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 1981 , pp. 377 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 1981

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1 Earlier drafts were read at the universities of Hull, Oxford, Dundee, Stirling and Glasgow. I owe thanks to many members of the audiences at those places.