Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-2xdlg Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-05T22:51:58.132Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter Thirteen - Pleasure, a supervenient end

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2013

Tobias Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Jörn Müller
Affiliation:
Universität Würzburg, Germany
Matthias Perkams
Affiliation:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Get access

Summary

The Nicomachean Ethics contains two treatises on what might be called pleasure, enjoyment, or delight. Both treatises present and respond to opinions about the goodness or badness of pleasure and argue that pleasure is not movement or change or process. The first treatise says that pleasure is an unimpeded action of a habit according to nature. The second treatise says that pleasure perfects or completes action, as a supervenient end, as beauty supervenes on the young. Aristotle discusses pleasure and pain in general; he discusses bodily pleasures in particular. Aquinas explains how it is that, although spiritual pleasure is greater than bodily pleasure, the latter is more intensely felt by us. The author has twice compared a passage in Aquinas's Ethics commentary and an article of the Summa theologiae. On the subject of pleasure, Aquinas the Aristotelian is finally inseparable from Aquinas the Augustinian.
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×