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Book 1-2 read

Note 2/2:

Aristotle will now proceed to argue that contemplation (*theoria*) best satisfies these criteria. I am excited to hear this argument!

A life of morally virtuous activity comes second.

Note 1/2:

Time to finally sum up everything that I've learned and thought about together with Aristotle so far, in this difficult book! Aristotle himself gives a CliffNotes summary – that Eudaimonia is: i) an activity, ii) lacking in nothing, iii) desirable for its own sake, iv) self-sufficient.

Finished book 1. I guess I’m aiming for a life of contemplation.

The notes teach that Aristotle denies the Platonic view that pleasure is a movement (kinesis) or coming-to-be (genesis) – I had no idea that Plato thought that pleasure is a dynamic movement. In which dialogue does he expound this? Ig it makes sense – pleasure must surely be but an imprint of the Good, and being a movement, not a static Form, makes it imperfect.

And so idk why Aristotle denies the Platonic view.