Pleasure as Perfection: Nicomachean Ethics X.4-5

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Abstract

I argue that Aristotle took pleasure to be a certain aspect of perfect activities of awareness, namely, their very perfection. I also argue that this reading facilitates an attractive interpretation of his view that pleasures differ in kind along with the activities they arise in connection with.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)257-287
JournalOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Volume41
StatePublished - 2011

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