Aristotle may dismiss the life of pleasure as we think of it (i.e. a life that obeys our bodily desires and whims via excesses of food, drink, sex etc.) but, in his Nicomachean Ethics, he claims that there are different kinds of pleasures in life, and that the virtuous man takes pleasure in acting in moderation, with active virtue and in accord with proper reason. The virtuous individual acts virtuously because he enjoys and derives pleasure from his right actions; he does not act virtuously because he is commanded to or because he thinks it would make him look like a good person. So, in a sense, Aristotle is advocating a life of pleasure...he just wants us to be careful about what we habituate ourselves to find pleasurable.
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2006-02-13 18:40:02 UTC
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