a lecture by Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) at the University of Chicago on February 18, 2016.
Aristotle’s remarks in the last book of the Nicomachean Ethics that the highest form of happiness consists in θεωρία is often translated as revealing happiness to consist in contemplation, without noting that both terms designate a kind of seeing, a mode of vision. This oversight if more remarkable when we recall that the vision in question is that of the divine. What does Aristotle mean by “seeing the divine?” This lecture suggests that one way to understand Aristotle is to hear him as urging that happiness is associated with seeing the world as divine.
Aryeh Kosman is John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Haverford College. He is author of several books, including The Activity of Being: An Essay on Aristotle's Ontology (Harvard, 2013) and Virtues of Thought: Essays on Plato and Aristotle (Harvard, 2014).
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