"So the study of ourselves as socially embedded creatures is the study of what is the highest good for the human. And the highest good for the human being, says Aristotle, is — both in the minds of the common man, that is, both in sort of what you would read in the equivalent of the mass media in ancient Greece, and in the mind of the educated — what was called eudaimonia or flourishing, sometimes translated as happiness. That's what everybody is going for.
... There's the question, what's the thing that everybody's after? And the answer is, everybody's after the same thing. They're after happiness, flourishing, eudaimonia."
© Tamar Gendler
Yale Lectures on Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature, 2011
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... There's the question, what's the thing that everybody's after? And the answer is, everybody's after the same thing. They're after happiness, flourishing, eudaimonia."
© Tamar Gendler
Yale Lectures on Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature, 2011
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