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As Aristotle expresses it, pleasure is the natural accompaniment of unimpeded activity. · Pleasure, as such, is neither good nor bad, but is something positive  Autres questions
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  • What does Aristotle say about pleasure and happiness?

    We have a rational capacity and the exercising of this capacity is thus the perfecting of our natures as human beings.
    For this reason, pleasure alone cannot constitute human happiness, for pleasure is what animals seek and human beings have higher capacities than animals.

  • Where does Aristotle talk about pleasure?

    Aristotle links pleasure with activity in his treatment of pleasure in books VII and X of the Nicomachean Ethics.
    Scholars have usually discussed whether pleasure is something that accompanies activity or something peculiar to the activity itself1.

  • What does Aristotle say about pain and pleasure?

    According to Aristotle, pain rather than pleasure drives moral progress.
    People come to desire virtuous acts through internalizing punishment, that is, learning to feel shame at wrongdoing.

  • What does Aristotle say about pain and pleasure?

    Aristotle discusses three different lifestyles all traditionally thought to be happy: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the virtuous life.
    He rejects the identification of happiness with the life of pleasure because such a life is 'slavish' and 'suitable [only] for cattle'.

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