Re: Striving for Eudaimonia

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 02:01:16 MDT


On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:03:45PM -0500, David G. McDivitt wrote:
> Frankly, I want no more of Aristotle's little packages, including any
> human potential packages.

In that case, why are you on this list? Because like it or not, many of
the core assumptions of transhumanism include Aristotelian thought. They
might be refined or in need of refinement, but if you remove them very
little of transhumanism makes philosophical or practical sense.

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