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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics The Good Life Virtue
is happy, but for Aristotle, that is not happiness. Why? It seems rather arrogant to suppose that these creatures who are not analytical and do not possess advanced degrees are
According to Aristotle, there are two specific types of virtues, "intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which
the ends) and that in this context, the end products are always better than the means that produced them (Aristotle, Book I, 2009). That is, the end good of medical
have some objective qualities, but it also can be relative to each individual and his circumstances. In Chapter 13 of Book One, and in Chapter 1 of Book Two, Aristotle
to achieve its perfection within and only within the Greek polis, and also was the only living creature endowed with logos (1994). Logos is the capacity to distinguish and express
anger. In Book II of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle notes that the soul boasts three factors; passions, faculties and states of character (Aristotle). By faculties, Aristotle means "the things in virtue
at happiness from the viewpoint of Aristotle may help to get a grasp on this compelling subject. In Aristotles view, happiness does not lie in amusement but
nature is desirous of procreation - procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity; and this procreation is the union of man and woman, and is a divine
be Catholic." Meaning, that the early life patterns are set and the internal personality traits are determined by the time a child reaches seven years old. Though it is doubtful
trust that must exist between people in order to cultivate friendship (Aristotle PG). As such, one can readily associate the manner by which Aristotles Nichomachean Ethics illustrates how friendship
or simply, the individual is bad. Others take a more somber approach or possess a more liberal way of looking at things. They see an individual who is hurting
points to a chain of causality. People act in order to obtain a goal, to achieve something, which leads to another goal, and so forth. This observation causes Aristotle to
sentiment. Aristotle (2000) believed that ethics and thought were the fundamental basis for happiness, inasmuch as one cannot truly be happy if he is not cohesive with world around
reference to things possessed by ancient heroes and gods and such as they involved positive traits such as strength, wisdom, and courage (Aristotle: A General Introduction, 2006). The problem, it
do: "So the proper excellence of the horse makes a horse what it should be, and makes it good at running, and carrying his rider, and standing a charge" (Nicomachean