Truth and Universal Assent

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (3):377 - 394 (1981)
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One of the theses defended by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics books VII and X is that pleasure is good or is one of the good things : and Aristotle thinks that it follows from this that the best thing is a pleasure, or is pleasure in a certain way. Among his arguments for the latter we find the following:The fact that all things, both brutes and men, pursue pleasure is an indication that the best thing is in a certain way that.

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10.1080/00455091.1981.10716310

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