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Τα "Ηθικά Νικομάχεια" τοποθετούν μία ανώτερη αξία στην αυτονομία της επιστήμης στον βίο του ατόμου: η ανώτατη (υπέρτατη) μορφή εὐδαιμονίας προσλαμβάνει την ένταξή της απόλυτα στην επιστημονική θεωρία, και ο επιστήμονας θα εκτελέσει τις πρακτικές εργασίες που προβάλλουν από τις ανθρώπινες συνθήκες διαβίωσής του μέσα στην κοινωνία των άλλων (1178b6). Οι ηθικές πραγματείες του Αριστοτέλη, όπως καταδεικνύει η επισταμένη προσοχή που αποδόθηκε σε αυτές τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες, προσφέρουν ένα μεγαλοπρεπές εννοιολογικό πλαίσιο για την εξέταση των ηθικών ζητημάτων. Φαίνονται ειδικά ελκυστικές σε εκείνους που δεν είναι ικανοποιημένοι από τον Καντιανό δεοντολογισμό ή τον θετικιστικό ευνουχισμό της ηθικής.

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    National Museum Cardiff

  • . 48 SUMMARY

    THE LIFE OF CONTEMPLATION IN ARISTOTLES ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY

    The Nicomachean Ethics exhibits two accounts of eudaimonia, a comprehensive and an

    exclusive intellectualist account. According to the intellectualist account, stated in Book X Chap.7,

    eudaimonia is realized in the activity of the most divine part of man, functioning in accordance with its

    proper excellence. This is the activity of theoretical contemplation, the quality of which intrinsically

    bears on eudaimonia. According to the comprehensive account (described as secondary at 1178a9),

    eudaimonia essentially involves not just the activity of the theoretical intellect, but the full range of

    human life and action, in accordance with the broader excellences of mortal virtue, given its definition

    by the mean, and practical wisdom which make the (the attainment of human nature:

    1178b5-7). This view connects eudaimonia with the conception of human nature as composite, i.e. as

    involving the interaction of reason, emotion, perception, and action in an ensouled body.

    In NE VI 7 the discovery of scientific truth is in Aristotles terms something noble, concerned

    with (the attainment of truth). The sophia is the highest type of knowledge, and knowledge

    of the highest objects. According to the NE, the sophia is the most perfect virtue, and the activity which

    is the exercise of sophia, that is to say contemplation, is what perfect eudaimonia consists in. All

    virtues are chosen for the sake of eudaimonia, but in the case of virtues other than sophia, according to

    Aristotle (1177b3), we pursue something other than their activity for its own sake. In the case of sophia

    we do not seek anything other than the contemplation which is its exercise. When from NE X we turn

    back to Book I and read that the good for man is activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there

    are more than one virtues, according to the best and most perfect, it is natural to think of sophia as

    being the best and most perfect virtue.

    Within the intellectualist account of eudaimonia, which dominates Chapters 7 and 8 of Book

    X, the contemplative life is achieved not in virtue simply of being a man, but in virtue of something

    divine of which men partake. This divine element, which gives us the capacity to think about things

    higher than ourselves, is the highest aspect of our souls. Hence we should cultivate that portion of our

    nature that promises to transcend the rest which belongs to a complete account of human life. We must

    identify with the highest part of ourselves rather than with the whole. The other functions, including the

    practical employment of reason itself, provide support for the highest form of activity, but do not enter

    into our proper excellence as primary component factors. This is because men possess as their essential

    nature a capacity to transcend themselves and become like gods, that is they are capable in virtue of

    contemplation of (the attainment of immortality).

    Panagiotis Ath. Dellis

    Department of Classics

    University of Ioannina

    Greece

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