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value can there- fore approve himself in the strong sense that he is living the right life. If we abandon this point and assume that the content of a good life can- not be decided on objective grounds, then two questions arise. Firstly, 6 If the mesotês doctrine is not simply related in this way to this
least what they wish when, living in a well-ordered society, they are able to realize such a desire and can rely on a maximum provision of primary goods and accommodating institutions. In view of his life plan, a person is concerned with the totality of his life. In this respect he takes
constitute independent existences called spirits. They are in fact mere images of the real objects. Q. Which is good, life or death? 103 A Many people may argue that life is good and the better of the two. It is in living that mankind multiplies itself. And as we said earlier on, it is in life that man
only enjoy the happiness of the political form of life. It remains the case, in this connection, that the representative of the theoretical form of life always needs the practical-political form aswell, since he is indeed a “composite” living being made up of body and soul (syntheton, b f.). EN X
achieved through “living together” (syzên), in the sense of sharing not a roof, but a life.3 Taken abstractly, this comes to “the sharing of words and thought” (IX., b f.), or, if that sounds ineffectual, “the sharing of words and deeds” (IV. [], b f.). What it comes to concretely depends
realization of the avowed intention (and so revelation of what the subject was in fact committed to doing). The projected self-sentiment of a merely living self is realized by the “negation” of the object of desire necessary for life, part of an endless cycle of being subject to one’s desires and
institutional justice (cf. § 35, 192 f. and § 69, 400). 11.2. Motivating Conditions An essential factor for the internal stabilization of a society’s justice is the inclination of its members to respect just social institutions and to con- tribute towards establishing them. In fact, the motivational attitudes