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Headword:
Telos
eudaimonias
Adler number: tau,283
Translated headword: an end [differs] from happiness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [An end [
telos]] differs from [happiness [
eudaimonia]]. For an end is a particular pleasure, whereas happiness is the structure [
su/sthma] consisting of particular pleasures, amongst which we number past and future pleasures[1].
[An example of the] construction [of this word]: 'they compelled us that the end is to lie awake(?).'[2]
The soul[3] is an activity insofar as it not only makes the body perfect, rules it and manages it but also sets in motion all its organs.[4] Without the soul, the body would be imperfect or, rather, useless, i.e. nothing at all.
Telos eudaimonias diapherei. telos men gar estin hê kata meros hêdonê, eudaimonia de to ek tôn merikôn hêdonôn sustêma, hais sunarithmountai kai hai parôichêkuiai kai hai mellousai. suntaxis: telos einai diagrupnein hêmas ênankazon. hoti entelecheia estin hê psuchê, hôs teleiousa kai kubernôsa kai oikonomousa to sôma kai kinousa ta organa toutou panta: hês aneu ateles, mallon de achrêston, kai pantelôs ouden.
Notes:
[1] This echoes a Cyrenaic doctrine (cf.
Diogenes Laertius 2.87). For a brief commentary on the passage see Julia Annas,
The Morality of Happiness (Oxford 1993) 38-39.
[2] An unidentifiable quotation (and an obscure paragraph altogether).
[3] For this material cf.
eta 97.
[4] See
Aristotle,
De anima 2.1.
P. Mitsis, Epicurus' Ethical Theory, Ithaca 1988.
G. Striker, "Epicurean Hedonism", in J. Brunschwig, M.C. Nussbaum (eds.) Passions & Perceptions. Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum, Cambridge 1993, pp.3-17.
Keywords: definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 12 November 1999@13:00:41.
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