A series with work in progress lectures on topics in Ancient Philosophy. This week's topic: Guy Schuh (Suffolk University), Topic: Aristotle on Moral Desert "It is sometimes said that Aristotle views virtue as its own reward. But this is only half the story. He just as persistently maintains that virtue is deserving of a reward beyond itself. Despite this fact, moral desert in Aristotle is a surprisingly neglected topic. To both fill in the gaps in existing interpretations and encourage further investigation and debate of this neglected area of Aristotle’s ethical thinking, I will develop a comprehensive framework for analyzing Aristotle’s account of moral desert. I will then argue that this framework justifies a new interpretive possibility that reconciles many of the differences in existing interpretations: that Aristotle recognizes several distinct kinds of moral desert or that he is a moral desert pluralist. Finally, I will argue that Aristotle’s pluralism allows him to respond to a well-known objection to eudaimonism—that it violates the intuition that people can fail to realize their moral desert."