Aristotle on <i>eudaimonia, nous</i>, and divinity
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
No work in the ancient philosophy corpus has generated more scholarly discussion in recent years than Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (N.E.), and no issue that it raises has been more controversial than Aristotle’s position(s) throughout the work concerning the ultimate human good, which he consistently identifies with eudaimonia (conventionally translated as “happiness”). Debate has chiefly centered on the question whether Aristotle represents eudaimonia as comprising a plurality of intrinsically choiceworthy goods (“inclusive” end) – meaning either a set of virtuous activities or this plus various intrinsic goods such as pleasure and friends – or whether, instead, he envisions it to be a unitary goal (“dominant” end) consisting strictly in just one supremely excellent thing, more specifically, a single kind of virtuous activity. It is widely agreed that his preliminary discussion of eudaimonia in Book i of N.E. is couched in terms that are too general or too ambiguous to settle the question decisively, though they tend, in my view, to favor the “inclusive” alternative. However, in Book x Aristotle states unequivocally that the happiest life consists in the exercise of intellectual virtue or contemplation (theoria), while the political life of moral virtue (which he has been exclusively treating throughout Books ii–v and vii–ix) is happiest only “secondarily” (N.E. x.7–8, 1178a6–10). A page or two later he writes (1178b28–32):
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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