Aristotle | On the Good Life
In this excerpt from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores what it means to lead a good life and how this is related to pleasure, pain, virtue, and character. He concludes that happiness, or pleasure, is the chief good, or end goal, of a well-lived life.
-Eudoxus saw pleasure as good because
A) all things, both rational and irrational, aim for the good.
B) pleasure is not an object of choice.
C) pleasure added to the good makes it unworthy of choice.
D) the good is not pleasure.

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Eudoxus argued that pleasure is good because all things, both rational and irrational, aim for the good, suggesting that pleasure is universally sought after.

Aristotle | on the Good Life