Good life Flashcards
_________ in Aristotelian ethics, the condition of human flourishing or of
living well.
________ is the principles or methods employed in making something or attaining an objective
compare understanding.
___________ is the person whose life is characterized by such applications of phronêsis and who, as a
result, tends to flourish throughout his life. Such a person is said to be eudaimôn or “happy.
________ is an approach to the study of management and organizations focusing on ethics and
power. It is based on a contemporary interpretation of the Aristotelian concept phronesis, usually
translated as ‘practical wisdom’, sometimes as ‘prudence’.
______ - an ultimate object or aim.
eudaimonia, also spelled eudaemonia,
techne (ˈteknē)
phronimos
Phronetic
telos (te・los)
The pursuit of téchne makes sense only to the extent
that it pushes forward the attainment of what the
Greeks call _______ If it does not push forward the
said goal, then téchne loses its ____.
eudaimonia.
value
the activity of living well, or what is called the
good life.
Eudaimonia
Now it is thought to be a mark of a man of practical wisdom to be able to
deliberate well about what is good and expedient for himself, not in some
particular respect, e.g., about what sorts of things contribute to health or
strength, but about what sorts of things contribute to the good life in general.
This is shown by the fact that we credit _______ with practical wisdom in some
particular respect when they have calculated well with a view to some good
end, which is one of those that are not the object of any art (téchne)
men
focuses on “some
good end,” which
implies a particular
good end that is
different from the
particular good ends
that are the objects
of téchne.
Phronetic
deliberation
employs instrumental
deliberation about what
“sorts of things” are
conducive to a
productive end beyond
the undertaken actions.
téchné
The aim of the practically wise man
_________ points to activities that
lead to ________ as a whole,
conducing to “the good life in general.”
(phronimos)
eudaimonia
If the telos of __________ entails the
excellence of deliberation as “correctness of
thinking” (VI.9), _______ distinguishes between
“unqualified” deliberative excellence on the one
hand and deliberative excellence “with
reference to a particular end” on the other.
phronetic deliberation
Aristotle
The former type of deliberative excellence is itself an
_________ excellence because it succeeds with reference
to an “unqualified” object, “the end in the unqualified sense.”
“unqualified”
The universal, it seems that unqualified deliberative
excellence is that which succeeds with reference to the
unqualified end, “the best for man of things attainable by
action” which elsewhere _________ identifies as _________.
Aristotle
eudaimonia
means “recognizing particulars” and deliberating
about particular actions, while concurrently aiming
at, or keeping in mind, the good life in general.
Practical wisdom
______________ , then, is that which succeeds
with reference to this unqualified end because it is deployed under
this aim at the whole of eudaimonia, even while confined to the
particular practical context.
Unqualified deliberative excellence
____________ is distinguished from téchnë deliberation
(and simply characterized) by two things:
(1) its ______ (virtuous actions), which are constituent-means to the end or
eudaimonia, and
(2) the aim of its ______, who aims at eudaimonia.
While we have retained the Similarity that téchnë and phronetic
deliberation both operate in particular situations, the physician (for
instance) aims at “health”, while the phronimos aims at “living well
writ large.”
Phronetic deliberation
tele
agent
As correctness of thinking, ___________ needs a determinate object in
order to get off the ground at all. The excellence of such deliberation
simply cannot be measured by its effectiveness at all.
deliberation
The issue is exacerbated by the fact that most of the examples _________ gives are, as
previously stated, cases of technical deliberation or at best, partial deliberation.
We are never given a ________ of what it means to deliberate well with a view to
“the best” or “living well” as a whole.
For the mathematician in ______, the end is clearly set, and the practical question is
just to figure out what means or measures work most effectively, and then plot them
out.
The doctor might ask himself specification questions (“what constitutes health in this
situation?”), he is working with a growing, but the determinate body of knowledge,
expertise, or skill set.
Thus, when _______- says that “Matters concerned with conduct and questions of what is good for us have no fixity, any more than matters of health,” we must keep in mind
that, although the physician and the phronimos surely both employ specification-type
deliberation, matters of health do have some _________ which matters of ethical
conduct do not, rendering the deliberation regarding the former ultimately reducible to
the question of efficacy…
Till the specification is available there is no room for means. When this specification is
reached, means-end deliberation can start.
LESSON 3: THE GOOD LIFE
Aristotle
clear example
BOOK III
Aristotle
disciplinary fixity
