Boxes in blue correspond to my ideas.
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layout=dot
rankdir=BT
node [fontsize=11 fontname=sans shape=box]
eudaimonia [shape=oval
width=2.2
color=red
penwidth=2
label="Eudaimonia
Human flourishing"]
good [width=1.4
label="What is good?"]
induction [width=2.0
label="Induction on the question
of what is the purpose
of any action."]
telos [width=2.0
label="Telos
Live to fulfill your purpose"]
virtue [width=2.2
label="Virtue
is the golden mean between
excessive behaviours"]
practice [width=1.8
label="Practical
application of virtue
not only knowledge"]
phronesis [width=2.2
color=red
penwidth=2
label="Phronesis
allows to determine the
correct action for a situation"]
notfixed [width=2.2
label="There is no set of
fixed laws to describe virtue."]
experience [width=2.0
label="Life experience
nourishes our phronesis"]
endoxa [width=1.6
label="Endoxa
Cultural context"]
reason [width=2.0
label="Reason gives us
the ability to understand
what virtue is"]
cardinal [width=1.2
label="Cardinal virtues
* Phronesis
* Courage
* Justice
* Temperance"]
joy [width=1.6
color=red
penwidth=2
label="Acting virtuosly
should bring joy"]
fakeit [width=1.8
label="If you practice
virtue you will develop
an appreciation for it"]
education [width=1.8
label="Education
brings us to appreciate
virtuous action"]
wealth [width=2.6
label="Wealthy and healthy individuals
that are not burdened with pain
have the discretion for virtue"]
politic [width=2.5
label="Politics
must understand eudaimonia to
allow the flourishing of all"]
civility [width=2.2
color=blue
label="Civility
is phronesis applied to the
flourishing of social order"]
society [width=2.4
color=blue
label="A virtuous society
enjoys more freedom because
it requres less laws"]
lifetime [width=2.4
label="Considered over a lifetime
Only the trail our life leaves on
the world can be judged"]
carryon [width=1.8
color=blue
label="Only joy can keep us
engaged with virtue
during a lifetime"]
categorical [width=2.5
color=blue
label="Kant's categorical imperative
is sound theoretically but
cannot provide infinite willpower"]
selfish [width=2.2
label="Selfish pursuit
Flourish for my sake only ?"]
friends [width=2.8
label="Friendship
* Imperfect if for advantage/pleasure
* True if you act for the other's sake"]
equality [width=2.6
label="True friendship
can only grown between equals
since your friend is another self"]
dialectic [width=2.6
color=blue
penwidth=2
label="Wisdom can only be
achieved through dialectic
the reflection of yourself in others"]
eudaimonia -> virtue [dir=back, style=invis]
telos -> virtue [dir=back, constraint=false]
eudaimonia -> telos [dir=back]
good -> eudaimonia
induction -> good
virtue -> practice [dir=back]
virtue -> phronesis [dir=back]
virtue -> cardinal [dir=back]
cardinal -> phronesis [dir=back, constraint=false]
phronesis -> notfixed [dir=back]
phronesis -> civility [dir=back]
civility -> society [dir=back]
notfixed -> reason [dir=back]
notfixed -> experience [dir=back]
notfixed -> endoxa [dir=back]
endoxa -> experience [style=invis]
practice -> joy [dir=back]
joy -> fakeit [dir=back]
joy -> education [dir=back]
joy -> wealth [dir=back]
{wealth education} -> politic [dir=back]
society -> politic
lifetime -> eudaimonia
selfish -> eudaimonia
friends -> eudaimonia
categorical -> lifetime
carryon -> lifetime
equality -> friends
dialectic -> equality
{rank=same eudaimonia good}
}