Tierney Notes
Knowledge only comes when we are able to justify and account for our true beliefs.
Socrates's fearlessness to stand firmly behind his beliefs in the face of death, loving the search for truth enough to die defending it.
Beauty is the face that goodness shows to desire.
Acclamation is harmful; Prejudice prevents information from getting through if the receiver believes to already know it.
Once you're happy, there's nowhere else to go. Now is the only time you get to be happy. It is a telos built into the activity you are now doing. If you are doing something for the right reason, you're happy now; Happiness is an activity, not a result. Pleasure is not synonymous with happiness because pleasure is not an activity. You do happiness and get pleasure as a passiveness of the soul. You don't get a choice to seek happiness. Humans by nature do so, though they can be mistaken about what makes them happy.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance to human excellence, in addition to some external goods.
Socrates's fearlessness to stand firmly behind his beliefs in the face of death, loving the search for truth enough to die defending it.
Beauty is the face that goodness shows to desire.
Acclamation is harmful; Prejudice prevents information from getting through if the receiver believes to already know it.
Once you're happy, there's nowhere else to go. Now is the only time you get to be happy. It is a telos built into the activity you are now doing. If you are doing something for the right reason, you're happy now; Happiness is an activity, not a result. Pleasure is not synonymous with happiness because pleasure is not an activity. You do happiness and get pleasure as a passiveness of the soul. You don't get a choice to seek happiness. Humans by nature do so, though they can be mistaken about what makes them happy.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance to human excellence, in addition to some external goods.