Economics and Its Ethical Assumptions (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 256-59 | Added on Thursday, March 15, 2012, 03:15 PM
Aristotle would say that your life's being an objective success includes the well-being of your friends. It's not that the well-being of your friends causes you some jollies — it does, sure, but that's not all there is to it. In fact, he would say that the welfare of your friends causes you pleasure because it's part of your good, not vice versa — that pleasure is a byproduct of getting what you think is good rather than the opposite.
