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Kant, from what I am straining to understand, thought that virtue is merely "duty", and correspondingly thought joy, Aristotle's eudaimonia which Aquinas took onto a Christian plane, was a sort of chimaera.— Sierra Highlands
True to his being a keen biologist first, a metaphysician second, he believed the state should be understood as an organism with a purpose, in this case, to promote happiness, or eudaimonia.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The main idea in Aristotle's ethics is that the proper end of mankind is the pursuit of eudaimonia which is Greek for a very particular kind of 'happiness'.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Justice provides rewards and punishments not because it is the best strategy, but because it is a necessity for morally selfish individuals who nevertheless are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (eudaimonia, the responsible satisfaction of worthy goals).— Latest Articles
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