Cooper's inclusive reading requires that moral virtues contribute constitutively to eudaimonia, yet Aristotle explicitly reserves the term 'most happy' for the contemplative life alone (NE X.8 1178b7).
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contemplative life(Aristotelian and Thomistic framework applied by Dante to the celestial intelligences)
A mode of existence concerned with pure intellectual contemplation, held to be of a higher order than the active life.
eudaimonia(Aristotle's ethical theory; the broadest sense of the good life)
Often translated as 'happiness'; for Aristotle, consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, requiring both virtuous qualities/dispositions and acting on them
inclusive reading(as a type of philosophical interpretation)
An interpretation that brings together multiple ideas or elements, rather than separating them; here, it means treating moral virtues as having an important role in happiness.
moral virtues(Distinguished from the knowledge component of virtue)
Reliable habits instilled in the appetitive and emotional parts of the soul, constituting the non-epistemic component of virtue.