The good life key terms

Arête / virtuePlato

EudaimoniaPlato

SophistPlato

PhilosopherPlato

RhetoricPlato

Elenchus / Socratic method

Plato

Immorality : 'the worst of all conditions'

Plato

Iniquity / immorality as illness

Plato

Punishment as medicine

Plato

Natural law / conventional law

Plato

Rhetoric / philosophy

Plato

The leaky jars / the life of a stone

Plato

HedonismPleasure

Plato

Male prostitute (catamite) argument

Plato

Thirsty drinker (argument from

opposites)Plato

The foolish and wisePlato

The cowardly and brave

Plato

Happiness /Eudaimonia /

flourishingAristotle

Sufficient and necessary conditions

Aristotle

FunctionAristotle

SoulAristotle

ExcellenceAristotle

ContinenceAristotle

Candidates for the good life

Aristotle

Goods of the body, the soul and

external goodsAristotle

Virtue as pleasantAristotle

Role of training and habit

Aristotle

The meanAristotle

GenealogyNietzsche

Slave revoltNietzsche

Will to powerNietzsche

Good and bad morality

Nietzsche

Good and evil morality

Nietzsche

Herd/ slave moralityNietzsche

Master / noble morality

Nietzsche

Ressentiment Nietzsche

Eternal Recurrence (Amor Fati)

Nietzsche

Metaphysics of agency

Nietzsche

The doer and the deed

Nietzsche

The lamb and the birds of prey

Nietzsche

Subject-predicate errorNietzsche

Quantum of forceNietzsche

The misery inflicted onto the conscience

of the happyNietzsche

Realm of the here and now

Weil

Realm of the eternal and universal

Weil

Rights and obligations

Weil

Vital human needsWeil

Soul foodWeil

UprootednessWeil

Obligation to respect

Weil

Bodily food/ soul food analogy

Weil

Respect owing to collectivities

Weil

Garden/ collectivity analogy

Weil

Inductive argumentWeil

Antithetical needs of the soul

Weil

Order and liberty Weil

Obedience and responsibility

Weil

Equality and hierarchism

Weil

Honour and punishment

Weil

Security and riskWeil

Private property and collective property

Weil

Freedom of opinion and truth

Weil