ABSTRACT
This Keeling volume concerns Plato's influence on Aristotle. I trust that it will be acceptable for me to speak not directly of Plato, but of the literary character, Socrates - 'the Socrates', as Aristotle calls him.11 shall assume that it makes sense to ascribe views to this character, and to identify him as the same person in different dialogues.2 The main claim of my paper is that Socrates' views on the relation of virtue and happiness led to tensions in his position and intimations of a rejection of eudaimonism, and that Aristotle can be read as attempting to continue the eudaimonistic project.3 What I mean by 'eudaimonism', and other pieces of jargon, should become clearer as I proceed.
