Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics•Grade 9•rhetoric Stage
What is Happiness?
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What You'll Learn
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Comprehension
Identifies happiness as the highest good - chosen for its own sake, not for anything else
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Cause & Consequence
Explains why pleasure cannot be the highest good (shared with animals, depends on circumstances)
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Meaning
Takes a position on whether Aristotle's definition of happiness is correct
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Defense
Steel-mans the counterargument (presents it in its strongest form)
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