Nichomean ethics book IV
In book VII, Aristotle discusses pleasure and pain. Aristotle says a philosopher must study pleasure and pain since he is an architect of the end. Aristotle informs you that children and animals pursue pleasures. Pleasure is not a chief good because it is not an end, but a coming to be. I believe that Aristotle states that children and animals pursue pleasures because he believes there minds to be uneducated in knowing what the virtues of life are and they enjoy simple pleasures because they can not see nor comprehend the grand scheme of life. Pleasure is not a chief good because it does not
Economical classification also plays a role in the development of ones physic. So even though some pleasures are bad there is no reason why some should not prevent on from attaining the chief good that they seek assuming that it is not self destructive in nature. Now, the action of smoking ultimately pleasures him but he is surely poisoning himself. They may achieve this by doing a simple action and experiencing the good produced by such action. It is also said that not all pleasures are good. So in order to analyze ones ethical standpoint one must have knowledge of how it was molded to understand why one thing is pleasurable to one and not the next. How does a person's experience shape how they find what is pleasurable and what is not, I believe it has to do with multiple factors such as sociological from amount of siblings to the number of adults that aide in the development of the adolescent. (smoking, drinking, promiscuity)used to aide in the dealing with pain may in turn be a crutch or vice taking one further from the chief good by clouding judgment and sense of well-being. So pleasures depending on what they are i. If one likes to smoke and every time one smokes, the chemical reaction caused by ingestion of cigarette brings pleasure to him. One may find walking down a scenic route pleasurable but, once the walk is over the pleasure experienced will also be gone where the chief good will leave you feeling well for an infinite and indefinite amount of time. In some societies is perceived as dirty to smoke while in previous decades it was a refined habit to perform. Pleasure is a short-formed way for someone to feel happiness for a temporary amount of time.
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