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title: Pleasure, Pain, and Happiness
subtitle: Aristottle and his Tradition
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# Aristotle on pleasure: a contextualist introduction
## Why pleasure
* Why pleasure out of all Goods?
* It seems most intimately related to our kind
* We steer the young by pleasure and pain
* Pleaseure and pain extend throughout a whole of a person's life
* People deliberately choose pleasant things and avoid pains
* "Being noblest and best, is most pleasant of all."
* Pleasures are somewhat different from happiness?
## Kinesis (change/motion)
* Raw naturalism
* Medical account, cause/effect
* New naturalism, identity, further qualitifactions of the process
* Subtle naturalism: further qualitifaction of the relevant process +
perceptual condition
# Pain in Aristotle: A speculative reconstruction
# Anecdotes and ethics: Theophrastus, Parrhasius, and the Forms of Life
#
> Many things come about that make peoel give up their lives, for example,
> disease, extreme pain or calamity; evidently, in the face of these one might
> have chosen not to have been born in the fierst place if one had had that
> choice.
> We should not take life as vicious and destructive or in pains. For such a
> life is indeterminate, just as the attributes that belong to it. It will be
> more evident in the following account of pain.
> < Base and excellent character must, then, consist in pursuing and avoiding
> certain pleasueres and pains.
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