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On Topics Too Personal to Be Considered Philosophy. A Justification Through the Aristotelian Endoxic Method (Presentation)

On Topics Too Personal to Be Considered Philosophy. A Justification Through the Aristotelian Endoxic Method (Presentation)

Cashen (2016) Aristotle on External Goods: Applying the ‘Politics’ to the ‘Nicomachean Ethics.’

Cashen, M. (2016). Aristotle on External Goods: Applying the ‘Politics’ to the ‘Nicomachean Ethics.’ History of Philosophy Quarterly, 33: 293–303. Family and friends, wealth, political influence, physical attractiveness and health, all these belong to a category Aristotle labels "ta ektos agatha ," external goods. By labeling these goods as "external," Aristotle means that they are external to t..

Cooper, J. M. (1985). Aristotle on the Goods of Fortune. Philosophical Review 94: 173–196.

Reeve, C. (1992). Practices of Reasoning: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. London: Oxford University Press. 29 EXTERNAL GOODSAristotle recognizes three types of goods: 'some called external (ektos), some goods of the psyche, others goods of the body; and the goods of the psyche are said to be goods to the fullest extent and most of all, and the actions and activities of the psyche are ascribed to..

In 1985 two articles appeared which took up a position at the opposite extreme, claiming that Nicomachean happiness included as a constituent not only wisdom and moral virtue, but also external goods such as wealth, status, and power. T. Irwin argued that if happiness is comprehensive, and goods dependent on fortune are genuine goods, then happiness must include them. John Cooper, in a striking ..

Before we approach Aristotle's treatment of 'tragic' reversal and the case of Priam, we need to point out that there are four rather different ways in which uncontrolled circumstances may, in these cases, interfere with excellent activity. They may(1) deprive it of some instrumental means or resource. This resource, in turn, may be either(a) absolutely necessary for excellent activity, so that i..

Cashen, M. (2012). The Ugly, the Lonely, and the Lowly: Aristotle on Happiness and the External Goods. History of Philosophy Quarterly 29: 1–19. Introductionpeople often feel unhappy with or insecure about the way they look, and those without family or friends do miss out on a dimension of happiness that could enrich their lives. Of course, by "happy" Aristotle does not mean what we mean today. ..

Annas, J. (1999). Aristotle on Virtue and Happiness. In: Nancy Sherman ed. Aristotle’s Ethics: Critical Essays. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.And at VII 13, 1153b14-25 Aristotle says that everyone thinks the happy life must be pleasant, since happiness cannot be hampered or impeded. "Hence the happy person needs the goods of the body and the external goods and fortune, so as not to be hampe..

T. H. Irwin. Permanent Happiness: Aristotle and Solon. in: in Nancy Sherman ed. Aristotle’s Ethics: Critical Essays. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 1999In his initial claim about happiness he attends closely to common beliefs. When he has defined happiness as an activity of the soul expressing complete virtue in a complete life, he introduces the common view that happiness is rather unstab..

Brown, E. 2006. Wishing for fortune, choosing activity: Aristotle on external goods and happiness. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 22:221–256. 1. Introduction Perhaps the most obvious controversy is this:Does Aristotle really mean that the human good is just virtuous rational activity?Are health and wealth, not to mention friends and lovers, not part of the goal f..