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We may well believe that as children and men have different ideas as to what is precious so too have the bad and the good: therefore, as we have many times said, those things are really precious and pleasant which seem so to the good man: and as to each individual that Working is most choiceworthy which is in accordance with his own state to the good man that is so which is in accordance with Virtue.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Where this model is possible and desirable – as it is for myself and my own family – it can be understood to be meaningfully choiceworthy.

To Hell with All That | Her Bad Mother 2006

Where this model is possible and desirable - as it is for myself and my own family - it can be understood to be meaningfully choiceworthy.

Archive 2006-04-30 2006

Where this model is possible and desirable - as it is for myself and my own family - it can be understood to be meaningfully choiceworthy.

To Hell with All That 2006

Accordingly, civilized behavior rests on that foundation, is a secondary satisfaction and, hence, really not choiceworthy if the primary satisfaction were available.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Accordingly, civilized behavior rests on that foundation, is a secondary satisfaction and, hence, really not choiceworthy if the primary satisfaction were available.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

The worry in a nutshell is that in modern societies that secure wide freedoms, people will embrace many opposed conceptions of how to live and of what is choiceworthy in human life.

Egalitarianism Arneson, Richard 2002

In a similar spirit, one might invoke the idea that responsible individuals cannot acquiesce in the assumption of the responsibility on the part of the government to determine what is worthwhile and choiceworthy for them, for this responsibility rests squarely on each individual's shoulders and cannot legitimately be dislodged from that perch.

Egalitarianism Arneson, Richard 2002

Intellect necessarily involved in having power, and yet these are the only sources of good Workings: nor does it follow that because these men, never having tasted pure and generous Pleasure, take refuge in bodily ones, we are therefore to believe them to be more choiceworthy: for children too believe that those things are most excellent which are precious in their eyes.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Therefore the fact of living is choiceworthy, and to the good specially so since existence is good and pleasant to them: for they receive pleasure from the internal consciousness of that which in itself is good.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle