Nic. Ethics 1
The meaning of "good" in section one, book one.
The end of an action.
The two kinds of virtues for human life.
Thought and character.
The three kinds of friendship.
Pleasure, utility, and the good.
The reason why it is important to love yourself if you want friends.
Our relation with our friends is a copy of our self-relation.
The view from the "many" on pleasure.
Activities and products apart from their activities.
The technical term to describe the means through which we become virtuous.
Habituation.
The two kinds of friendship preferred by vicious people.
The difference between the self-love of vicious and virtuous people.
The vicious person loves their desiring part. The virtuous person loves their understanding part.
The most important thing to consider when thinking about virtues of character.
Enjoying and hating the right things (1172a22-23).
DOUBLE POINTS: the relation between the subject matter (content) and methodology (method of study) for the study of ethics.
The content of ethics is human action. We cannot give exact rules for human action because circumstances change. Therefore, the method is to approximate the truth.
The similarity b/w virtues and crafts.
Double Points: the dissimilarity b/w v and c.
Both are capacities that can be developed.
Crafts require knowledge and means. Virtues require experience.
One reason why friendships of the good endure.
Other friendships rely on changing circumstances.
The virtuous person wishes good for "x" part of themselves.
The understanding.
Pleasure is a whole. We do all things for pleasure. Any dissatisfaction is an indication of an incomplete life.
The reason why self-satisfaction as opposed to happiness cannot be the highest end of human life.
Happiness by definition is complete and self-sufficient.
The tell-tale sign that you are virtuous.
Pleasure when doing virtuous action and pain when doing vicious.
The way to equalize unequal friendships.
The lower friend loves proportionately more than the superior one.
Double points: the definition of "good will."
Inactive friendship (1167a12).
The way to figure out which pleasures are good from bad and why.
Ask the good person. Their state enables them to make good judgments.
Plato: humans are rational animals.
Aristotle: humans are x animals.
Humans are political animals.
The mechanism that helps us preserve a virtuous state of character.
Pleasure.
The definition of friendship.
Any social bond.
Aristotle's argument against understanding the following as a selfless act: a good person sacrifices themselves and dies for the sake of a friend that is good.
For a good person, self-sacrifice is an action done for the sake of the understanding part.
The role of pleasure for making judgments.
Pleasure enables right judgments because each virtue has a pleasure that is proper to it (1175a33).