PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Four Causes, Relativism, Body Plan
19 Feb 2016
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Empirical survey is not the direction he goes in. He turns to work of art. (any activities of human making/ production) If you take or add to a successful craft- you will spoil it. Well made piece of the art goes for the mean (line between excess or deficiency: moral virtue takes low art of soul as raw material (animal and plant soul) imposing order. Resonance with pythagoreans: music is a mean between excess and deficiency. Too little salt vs. too much salt that make it excellent + beautiful. Phi: to measure ratio of legs to torso, head to torso. Take the mean and apply it into the inner animal. When reason rules over lower part of soul- you are like an artist of your soul) Morally virtuous feels the right mount of emotion (mean). Goal: make our soul is beautiful like an artist. Byronic: aristotle"s view is boring (arrogant is flourishing)
