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+---
+title: Philo, Nicomachean ethics
+date: 2023-11-18
+my_extra_options: [ graphviz ]
+categories: [misc]
+---
+
+Boxes in <span style="color:blue">blue</span> correspond to my ideas.
+
+```myviz
+digraph {
+  layout=dot
+  rankdir=BT
+  node [fontsize=11 fontname=sans shape=box]
+
+  eudaimonia [shape=oval
+    width=2.2
+    color=red
+    penwidth=2
+    label="Eudaimonia
+Human flourishing"]
+  good [width=1.4
+    label="What is good?"]
+  induction [width=2.0
+    label="Induction on the question
+of what is the purpose
+of any action."]
+  telos [width=2.0
+    label="Telos
+Live to fulfill your purpose"]
+  virtue [width=2.2
+    label="Virtue
+is the golden mean between
+excessive behaviours"]
+  practice [width=1.8
+    label="Practical
+application of virtue
+not only knowledge"]
+  phronesis [width=2.2
+    color=red
+    penwidth=2
+    label="Phronesis
+allows to determine the
+correct action for a situation"]
+  notfixed [width=2.2
+    label="There is no set of
+fixed laws to describe virtue."]
+  experience [width=2.0
+    label="Life experience
+nourishes our phronesis"]
+  endoxa [width=1.6
+    label="Endoxa
+Cultural context"]
+  reason [width=2.0
+    label="Reason gives us
+the ability to understand
+what virtue is"]
+  cardinal [width=1.2
+    label="Cardinal virtues
+* Phronesis
+* Courage
+* Justice
+* Temperance"]
+  joy [width=1.6
+    color=red
+    penwidth=2
+    label="Acting virtuosly
+should bring joy"]
+  fakeit [width=1.8
+    label="If you practice
+virtue you will develop
+an appreciation for it"]
+  education [width=1.8
+    label="Education
+brings us to appreciate
+virtuous action"]
+  wealth [width=2.6
+    label="Wealthy and healthy individuals
+that are not burdened with pain
+have the discretion for virtue"]
+  politic [width=2.5
+    label="Politics
+must understand eudaimonia to
+allow the flourishing of all"]
+  civility [width=2.2
+    color=blue
+    label="Civility
+is phronesis applied to the
+flourishing of social order"]
+  society [width=2.4
+    color=blue
+    label="A virtuous society
+enjoys more freedom because
+it requres less laws"]
+  lifetime [width=2.4
+    label="Considered over a lifetime
+Only the trail our life leaves on
+the world can be judged"]
+  carryon [width=1.8
+    color=blue
+    label="Only joy can keep us
+engaged with virtue
+during a lifetime"]
+  categorical [width=2.5
+    color=blue
+    label="Kant's categorical imperative
+is sound theoretically but
+cannot provide infinite willpower"]
+  selfish [width=2.2
+    label="Selfish pursuit
+Flourish for my sake only ?"]
+  friends [width=2.8
+    label="Friendship
+* Imperfect if for advantage/pleasure
+* True if you act for the other's sake"]
+  equality [width=2.6
+    label="True friendship
+can only grown between equals
+since your friend is another self"]
+  dialectic [width=2.6
+    color=blue
+    penwidth=2
+    label="Wisdom can only be
+achieved through dialectic
+the reflection of yourself in others"]
+
+  eudaimonia -> virtue [dir=back, style=invis]
+  telos -> virtue [dir=back, constraint=false]
+  eudaimonia -> telos [dir=back]
+  good -> eudaimonia
+  induction -> good
+  virtue -> practice [dir=back]
+  virtue -> phronesis [dir=back]
+  virtue -> cardinal [dir=back]
+  cardinal -> phronesis [dir=back, constraint=false]
+  phronesis -> notfixed [dir=back]
+  phronesis -> civility [dir=back]
+  civility -> society [dir=back]
+  notfixed -> reason [dir=back]
+  notfixed -> experience [dir=back]
+  notfixed -> endoxa [dir=back]
+  endoxa -> experience [style=invis]
+  practice -> joy [dir=back]
+  joy -> fakeit [dir=back]
+  joy -> education [dir=back]
+  joy -> wealth [dir=back]
+  {wealth education} -> politic [dir=back]
+  society -> politic
+  lifetime -> eudaimonia
+  selfish -> eudaimonia
+  friends -> eudaimonia
+  categorical -> lifetime
+  carryon -> lifetime
+  equality -> friends
+  dialectic -> equality
+
+  {rank=same eudaimonia good}
+}
+```
+