Aristotle's Solon: On Happiness and Its Aftereffects
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 57, Issue 2
Abstract
The research subject of the first book of Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics is happiness (eudaimonia). While carrying out his research with the arguments which are the most common or seem the most fundemental ones, Aristotle draws conclusion that in order to consider someone happy, his virtue and his life has to be looked as a whole. This conclusion leads us that we could not call someone happy while he is alive. This article, focusing on how Aristotle tries to combine his theory of happiness with the conclusion which is known to belong Solon, aims to reveal Aristotle's views about whether or not the happiness of anyone, who has completed his life as happy person, remains open to changes by circumstances befalling on his friends or his descedants. Aristotle could not say that fortunes of the happy dead's descedants or friends have any influence on him although he does not think that the happiness or unhappiness of someone can be changed after his death. In this study, the background efforts of the philosopher on combining his happiness theory with Solon's dictum is tired to reveal while benefitting from interpretations of comtemporaneous researchers on this ambivalent statement.
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Ceyda KEYİNCİ
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