The Contemplative, the Morally Virtuous, and the Dead: Situating Nicomachean Ethics I.10–11 within Aristotle’s Theory of Happiness

The difficulties that Aristotle confronts in Nicomachean Ethics I.10–11, of the case of Priam’s late-in-life tragedy and of Solon’s aphorism that no man should be counted happy while living, have generated quite a lot of exegetical controversy. However, while much scholarly work has been done to elucidate whether (and, if so, how) the dead can …