The good life key terms

Arête / virtue Plato

Eudaimonia Plato

Sophist Plato

Philosopher Plato

Rhetoric Plato

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

Hedonism Pleasure Plato

Male prostitute (catamite) argument Plato

Thirsty drinker (argument from opposites) Plato

The foolish and wise Plato

The cowardly and brave Plato

Happiness /Eudaimonia / flourishing Aristotle

Sufficient and necessary conditions Aristotle

Function Aristotle

Soul Aristotle

Excellence Aristotle

Continence Aristotle

Candidates for the good life Aristotle

Goods of the body, the soul and external goods Aristotle

Virtue as pleasant Aristotle

Role of training and habit Aristotle

The mean Aristotle

Genealogy Nietzsche

Slave revolt Nietzsche

Will to power Nietzsche

Good and bad morality Nietzsche

Good and evil morality Nietzsche

Herd/ slave morality Nietzsche

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 error Nietzsche

Quantum of force Nietzsche

The misery inflicted onto the conscience of the happy Nietzsche

Realm of the here and now Weil

Realm of the eternal and universal Weil

Rights and obligations Weil

Vital human needs Weil

Soul food Weil

Uprootedness Weil

Obligation to respect Weil

Bodily food/ soul food analogy Weil

Respect owing to collectivities Weil

Garden/ collectivity analogy Weil

Inductive argument Weil

Antithetical needs of the soul Weil

Order and liberty Weil

Obedience and responsibility Weil

Equality and hierarchism Weil

Honour and punishment Weil

Security and risk Weil

Private property and collective property Weil

Freedom of opinion and truth Weil