TY - JOUR
T1 - Aristotle against Delos
T2 - Pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics X
AU - Aufderheide, Joachim
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Two crucial questions, if unanswered, impede our understanding of Aristotle’s account of pleasure in EN X.4-5: a) what are the activities that pleasure is said to complete, and b) in virtue of what does pleasure always accompany these activities? The answers fall in place if we read Aristotle as responding to the Delian challenge that the finest, best, and most pleasant are not united in one and the same thing (EN I.8). I propose an “ethical” reading of EN X.4 according to which the best activities in question are those integral to the exercise of virtue.
AB - Two crucial questions, if unanswered, impede our understanding of Aristotle’s account of pleasure in EN X.4-5: a) what are the activities that pleasure is said to complete, and b) in virtue of what does pleasure always accompany these activities? The answers fall in place if we read Aristotle as responding to the Delian challenge that the finest, best, and most pleasant are not united in one and the same thing (EN I.8). I propose an “ethical” reading of EN X.4 according to which the best activities in question are those integral to the exercise of virtue.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84977267599&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1163/15685284-12341309
DO - 10.1163/15685284-12341309
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-8868
VL - 61
SP - 284
EP - 306
JO - Phronesis
JF - Phronesis
IS - 3
ER -