Happiness is a much-debated topic in both ancient and contemporary philosophy. This paper is devoted to an analysis of Aristotle’s definition of eudaimonia in Book I of Nicomachean Ethics. My aim is twofold: first, to establish what are the necessary and sufficient conditions of eudaimonia for Aristotle; and second, to show how Aristotle’s theory is also a good answer to the questions of the contemporary common sense about what happiness is and how to achieve it. In this way, I would suggest new arguments to give a new voice to Aristotle and his ethics of happiness in the contemporary philosophical debate on this issue. My paper is therefore only tangentially a contribution to this debate and remains essentially an essay on the philosophy of Aristotle, centered on the crucial role of the ergon’s argument in the chapter 6.
Carlotta Capuccino (2015). Aristotele e l’etica della felicità: Etica Nicomachea I. PHILOSOPHIA, XII-XIII(1-2), 23-75.
Aristotele e l’etica della felicità: Etica Nicomachea I
Carlotta Capuccino
2015
Abstract
Happiness is a much-debated topic in both ancient and contemporary philosophy. This paper is devoted to an analysis of Aristotle’s definition of eudaimonia in Book I of Nicomachean Ethics. My aim is twofold: first, to establish what are the necessary and sufficient conditions of eudaimonia for Aristotle; and second, to show how Aristotle’s theory is also a good answer to the questions of the contemporary common sense about what happiness is and how to achieve it. In this way, I would suggest new arguments to give a new voice to Aristotle and his ethics of happiness in the contemporary philosophical debate on this issue. My paper is therefore only tangentially a contribution to this debate and remains essentially an essay on the philosophy of Aristotle, centered on the crucial role of the ergon’s argument in the chapter 6.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.