Well-being and Eudaimonia: A Reply to Haybron
Prof. Elina Karamatziani (University of Arizona)

April 23, 2013, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University

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221 Burwood Highway
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Australia

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  • Centre for Citizenship and Globalization
  • the Alfred Deakin Research Institute's 'Social Theory and Social Change Research Group'

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I argue for three things in this paper:

(1) If “perfectionism” about well-being is the view that well-being involves being a good specimen of humanity, then Aristotle isn’t a perfectionist.

(2) Aristotle does believe that welfare involves a person's fulfilment not just as an individual but also as a human.

(3) Aristotle was right on both of those points.

This paper was co-authored with Mark LeBar (Ohio University), and is an excerpt from my new book, Happiness for Humans (Oxford, 2012).

Dan Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona’s Freedom Center, and the Percy Seymour Reader in Ancient History and Philosophy at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. He specialises in ancient philosophy and ethics.

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