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4 Aristotle’s Function Argument

Christine M. Korsgaard V1 - 04/16/2008 4:15pm Page 129. 4. Aristotle's Function Argument 1. Introduction The purpose of the nicomachean Ethics is to discover the human good, that at which we ought to aim in life and action. Aristotle tells us that everyone calls this good eudaimonia (happiness, flourishing, well-being), but that people disagree about what it consists in (NE 1059a15ff). In , Aristotle suggests that we might arrive at a clearer conception of happiness if we could first ascertain the ergon ( Function ) of a human being (NE 1097b24). The justification of this line of inquiry is that for all things that have a Function or activity, the good and the well' is thought to reside in the Function '' (NE 1097b26 27).

the function argument, because the theoretical structure of the Nicomachean Ethics collapses without it. Part of the defense is conditional, and shows only that if one held Aristotle’s metaphysical beliefs, the function argument would seem as natural and obvious as it clearly seemed to him. But part of it is

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