This post is a great complement to "Aristotle's Children" by Richard E. Rubenstein, which I'm currently re-reading, which is about how influential Aristotle's ideas have been in Western culture.
In your explanation of eudaimonia, I heard the voice of my father. He's no longer alive, but now I wonder how conscious he was of his Aristotelian view of life's goal.
Happiness is so important! I'm glad you are looking into this and wanted to share a very short, experimental video I made that made me think of what you say about Nozik here:
Some men (and a few women also ) are born with a brain which without their consent or wish gets happiness from hurting people or being hurt ie sadists and masochists. And some (eg the present Zionist) or at least some of them))seem to have become psychopaths who ger happiness and satisfaction from inflicting hurt or killing those they see as enemies of Zionism whetherr hey are fighters or civilians including babies . So maybe there are two brands of happiness and one (hopefully a minor branch of humanity) which become happy by killing and injuring their enemies. Unlike the happiness which sadists and masochists feel i) is experienced as civic virtue.
For the deductive branch of reasoning, there are three Principles of Reasoning,They are Aristotle's three Laws of Thought. For the inductive branch of logic, the Principles of Reasoning are "entropy minimax, as described by the late theoretical physicist Ronald Arlie Christensen in in his seven volume treatise called the "Entropy Minimax Sourcebook. "Entropy Minimax" solves the ancient, previously unsolved "Problem of Induction." The problem is of how, in a logically permissible way, to select the set of inferences that will be made by a model of a physical system from a larger set of possibilities.
This post is a great complement to "Aristotle's Children" by Richard E. Rubenstein, which I'm currently re-reading, which is about how influential Aristotle's ideas have been in Western culture.
In your explanation of eudaimonia, I heard the voice of my father. He's no longer alive, but now I wonder how conscious he was of his Aristotelian view of life's goal.
Cool post. Well-written but digestible. Not overly complicated. Looking forward to the following two weeks!
Thanks for today's post. I look for to Niezche's...
I am looking forward as well to Niezche’s. Thank you very much for your writing!!! Wonderful.
You hit the nail in the head when you said anybody who has ever achieved anything did this with virtues derived from reason.
Happiness is so important! I'm glad you are looking into this and wanted to share a very short, experimental video I made that made me think of what you say about Nozik here:
https://philosophypublics.substack.com/cp/142675716#details
Some men (and a few women also ) are born with a brain which without their consent or wish gets happiness from hurting people or being hurt ie sadists and masochists. And some (eg the present Zionist) or at least some of them))seem to have become psychopaths who ger happiness and satisfaction from inflicting hurt or killing those they see as enemies of Zionism whetherr hey are fighters or civilians including babies . So maybe there are two brands of happiness and one (hopefully a minor branch of humanity) which become happy by killing and injuring their enemies. Unlike the happiness which sadists and masochists feel i) is experienced as civic virtue.
Total tangent, do you think Jefferson received the idea of "the pursuit of happiness" from Aristotle?
For the deductive branch of reasoning, there are three Principles of Reasoning,They are Aristotle's three Laws of Thought. For the inductive branch of logic, the Principles of Reasoning are "entropy minimax, as described by the late theoretical physicist Ronald Arlie Christensen in in his seven volume treatise called the "Entropy Minimax Sourcebook. "Entropy Minimax" solves the ancient, previously unsolved "Problem of Induction." The problem is of how, in a logically permissible way, to select the set of inferences that will be made by a model of a physical system from a larger set of possibilities.
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