[Buddha-l] buddhism and brain studies

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Jackhat1 at aol.com schreef:
> In a message dated 11/16/2008 4:40:28 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
> jehms at xs4all.nl writes:
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>> Aristotle carried as far as saying that one could be happy  or unhappy  
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> while 
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>> dead. Happiness depended on a virtuous life.  One had to wait until life  
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> was 
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>> over to determine if one lived a  virtuous life. This weighing of virtue  
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> could 
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>> change after death  because of the effect some of one's actions  while 
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> alive 
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>> might  change.
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> This is an interesting reading of  Aristotle, which I'm not familiar 
> with. Can you mention a  source?
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> On Happiness by Aristotle, Book 1. Here are some quotes. "We  are unwilling 
> to call the living happy because changes may befall them and  because we 
> believe that happiness haws permanence and is not amenable to  change under any 
> circumstances." "For it seems that to some extent good and  evil really exist for 
> a dead man, just as they may exist for a man who lives  without being 
> conscious of them, for example honors and disgraces, and  generally the successes and 
> failures of his children and descendents."   Another quote, "Happiness, as we 
> have said, requires completeness in virtue as  well as a complete lifetime." 
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> Jack
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Sorry Jack for being so persistent, but I fail to find references to a 
book written by Aristotle called 'On happiness'. It would be in Greek 
called 'Peri Eudemonia' I suppose? Where did you find it? All articles 
and references to Aristotle's view on happiness I found tell me that he 
saw it as excellent funcioning of the soul and that he's very uncertain 
about the whereabouts of the soul after death.

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Erik

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