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Essay: Pleasure as Aristotle’s Summum Bonum

By Marcus Teo At the heart of Aristotelian virtue ethics is Aristotle’s pursuit of the life well-lived, or Eudaimoina. To this purpose, Aristotle postulates that an individual who has lived such a life – a Eudaimon – is one who has successfully sought out the greatest good, also referred to as Summum Bonum (SB). Here, … Continue reading Essay: Pleasure as Aristotle’s Summum Bonum

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Summer Series: A Reversal Test on Moral Luck, and a Defence of Virtue Ethics

By Marcus Teo Consider the following scenario: Burglary: A burglar plots to break into an old woman’s house on a Sunday morning, a time when he knows she’s always at church. One Sunday he creeps up to her back window and smashes it with a hammer. After he looks inside, he sees that the old … Continue reading Summer Series: A Reversal Test on Moral Luck, and a Defence of Virtue Ethics