Pleasure as Perfection: Nicomachean Ethics X.4-5

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 41:257-287 (2011)
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Abstract

I argue that Aristotle took pleasure to be a certain aspect of perfect activities of awareness, namely, their very perfection. I also argue that this reading facilitates an attractive interpretation of his view that pleasures differ in kind along with the activities they arise in connection with.

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Matthew Strohl
University of Montana

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