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Article: Some reflections on Aristotle and elitism.(Essay)
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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IT IS OFTEN SAID THAT ARISTOTLE, since he locates human happiness preeminently in the exercise of speculative intellect,--and not when it is in quest of truth about the divine, but when it can exercise that activity on truths already known in contemplation,--effectively rules out the mass of mankind from human happiness. That this is a misunderstanding of what is going on when Aristotle identifies happiness preeminently with the exercise of our highest faculty is easily shown. But since the showing of it brings into play other aspects of Aristotle's alleged elitism, the showing of it is not without interest.
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