Status Updates From اخلاق

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.

Aristotle says “the essence of friendship is living together” – I am now reminded of my friends from another life: when we all lived together as brothers in NAQ, and I thought the saddest thing in the world was to be separated, by each of us gaining our own lives and thus drifting apart. Does Aristotle have anything to say about whether someone was even a friend in the 1st place, if it took so little to drift apart?