Aristotle | on the Good Life

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Aristotle | On the Good Life
In this excerpt from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores what it means to lead a good life and how this is related to pleasure, pain, virtue, and character. He concludes that happiness, or pleasure, is the chief good, or end goal, of a well-lived life.
-Eudoxus saw pleasure as good because

• A) all things, both rational and irrational, aim for the good.
• B) pleasure is not an object of choice.
• C) pleasure added to the good makes it unworthy of choice.
• D) the good is not pleasure.

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