The good life key
terms
Arête / virtue
Plato
Eudaimonia
Plato
Sophist
Plato
Philosopher
Plato
Rhetoric
Plato
Elenchus / Socratic
method
Plato
Immorality : 'the worst
of all conditions'
Plato
Iniquity / immorality as
illness
Plato
Punishment as
medicine
Plato
Natural law /
conventional law
Plato
Rhetoric / philosophy
Plato
The leaky jars / the life
of a stone
Plato
Hedonism
Pleasure
Plato
Male prostitute
(catamite) argument
Plato
Thirsty drinker
(argument from
opposites)
Plato
The foolish and wise
Plato
The cowardly and
brave
Plato
Happiness
/Eudaimonia /
flourishing
Aristotle
Sufficient and
necessary conditions
Aristotle
Function
Aristotle
Soul
Aristotle
Excellence
Aristotle
Continence
Aristotle
Candidates for the
good life
Aristotle
Goods of the body, the
soul and external
goods
Aristotle
Virtue as pleasant
Aristotle
Role of training and
habit
Aristotle
The mean
Aristotle
Genealogy
Nietzsche
Slave revolt
Nietzsche
Will to power
Nietzsche
Good and bad morality
Nietzsche
Good and evil morality
Nietzsche
Herd/ slave morality
Nietzsche
Master / noble morality
Nietzsche
Ressentiment
Nietzsche
Eternal Recurrence
(Amor Fati)
Nietzsche
Metaphysics of agency
Nietzsche
The doer and the deed
Nietzsche
The lamb and the birds
of prey
Nietzsche
Subject-predicate error
Nietzsche
Quantum of force
Nietzsche
The misery inflicted
onto the conscience of
the happy
Nietzsche
Realm of the here and
now
Weil
Realm of the eternal
and universal
Weil
Rights and obligations
Weil
Vital human needs
Weil
Soul food
Weil
Uprootedness
Weil
Obligation to respect
Weil
Bodily food/ soul food
analogy
Weil
Respect owing to
collectivities
Weil
Garden/ collectivity
analogy
Weil
Inductive argument
Weil
Antithetical needs of
the soul
Weil
Order and liberty
Weil
Obedience and
responsibility
Weil
Equality and
hierarchism
Weil
Honour and
punishment
Weil
Security and risk
Weil
Private property and
collective property
Weil
Freedom of opinion
and truth
Weil