Nicomachean Ethics

The nature of the good
good as single thing; final ends
            as related to one thing
            hierarchical
            things chosen for themselves: honor, pleasure, reason, virtue
            politics as highest good
            happiness: eudaimonia

self-sufficiency
           
Ergon argument
                        function of carpenter, body parts, whole man
                        rise through the soul functions
                        life of rational element
                                    activity in accordance with virtue in a complete life

Relations to the Good
first principles by habituation
goods: external, somatic, psychic
            active virtue is pleasant
            money necessary; health necessary; honor benefit
praise virtue; felicitate happiness

Aporia: ‘call no man happy til he is dead’
            tensions of activity and production
            sovreign virtue

An Adequate Psychology
three parts of the soul: irrational, amenable to reason, rational

Book II

virtue: a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us determined by a man of phronesis
doctrine of the mean between two extremes
            mean relative to us
            determined in circumstances: where, to whom, etc. as perceived by phronesis
            pleasure and pain; act and being affected

habits: how acquired

Book III
           
Socrates: denial of akrasia
                virtue is knowledge

                                    actions
           
            voluntary                        involuntary                          non-voluntary
                                                by force                        by ignorance (non-harmful)
                                                by ignorance-harmful

choice:   with reason, deliberation
            of things in our power
            about means, not ends

Book VI

intellectual virtues
            i. art/craft
            ii. scientific knowledge (episteme)
            iii. practical wisdom (phronesis):
faculty of acting with right reason about human goods
            iv. wisdom (sophia)
            v. intuition (nous)
           

Book VII

akrasia
            like being drunk or asleep: subject to phantasia
            knowledge of the universal is not used

Book X

a. Pleasure
            i. supervenient activity upon activity
            ii. relaxation

b. Contemplative activity