Hunt 1 Mrs. Gouveia ENG 4U March 11‚ 2015 The Pursuit of Happiness Money. Power. Fame. We all want it. We all need it. Inside every human being lies a craving buried deep inside for all of these. Is it worth it though? The effort that must be put in to achieve one or all of these values is enormous. What about when we finally achieve these goals? Is it truly as great as we all imagine? Will these things make us happy? Happiness is the ultimate goal of every human being whether it is pursued
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Happiness is an inner sense. It is the thing that makes the world good‚ in peace‚ and it is an emotion that is the best one yet. Most of people find the happiness or the joy in some little things‚ and they live the life like they want to live. You can find happiness in many things such as when you have good relationships with God and family. Also when you get a high score in your college. I believe that happiness can cause many effects in your life. The first effect of happiness is good health
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(416b30-418a7). For Aristotle‚ when our body senses something‚ such as when we taste a particular food‚ our tongue literally becomes that specific taste. For example‚ if a human were to eat a spicy Buffalo wing‚ our tongue at the time would become that particular type of spice. Aristotle states that‚ though our tongue has the potential to taste various flavors‚ at the time the tongue is only actively tasting the spicy Buffalo wing‚ as our body receives that flavor. Aristotle defends his claim through
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Aristotle defines virtue in terms of a mean or median. On one end is the excess and on the other the deficiency with the median found somewhere between the two. A sizeable portion of the book is dedicated to discussing these virtues and their excess and deficiency as well as the sphere the virtue falls under. While a majority of the virtues have vices on either side and are found through trial and error somewhere between them‚ the virtue of temperance does not have this quality and is therefore more
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with the opportunity to grow and realize his or her true potential. Aristotle believes that this is something everyone should work to achieve. No one intentionally wants to fail at being a human being and so people do whatever they can to continue to flourish. Aristotle’s philosophy favors ethical egoism because he believes that everything people do is in order to secure their own happiness in the end. According to Aristotle‚ human’s have two sides‚ an animal side and a side of reason. If we only
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Aristotle and Friendship According to Aristotle‚ there are three kinds of friendship based on three kinds of love that unite people. Aristotle defines friendship through the word‚ philia. Philia is the emotional bond between human beings which provides the basis for all forms of social organizations‚ common effort‚ and personal relationships between people. The three kinds of friendship Aristotle explains are utility‚ pleasure‚ and complete friendship. Friendship based on mutual utility
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NIGERIA NSUKKA TOPIC THE CATEGORIES OF ARISTOTLE COURSE INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS 1 NAME MABKWE NICHOLAS CHUKWUNWEIKE REG. NO 09/UN/SI/A/0826 LECTURER REV. FR. DR. B. ABANUKA C.S.Sp. DATE JANUARY 2011 INTRODUCTION Aristotle (384-322BC) is one of the most influential philosophers of the western tradition and had many philosophical works credited to him. In his treatise on logic collectively known as “Organon”‚ Aristotle gave two preliminary treatises; “The Categories
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Happiness When was the last time someone asked you what truly makes you happy? I remember the last day of high school sitting in my ninth period math class just staring at the clock counting the minutes that had gone by. All I kept thinking was how I wanted to be laying out on the beach and having fun with my friends‚ not sitting in that boring class listening to the boring teacher. Once that bell had run I was so relieved and so happy that I could now enjoy my summer down by the beach with my
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Tina Moss English 102 Morris 02/07/2012 What ’s your hurry? Remember when being happy was as simple as having fun and playing in the rain with your best friend(s)? Back when our main objective for the day was to finally outrun Timmy Jones from down the street in a relay race‚ or to capture the most lightning bugs in our ventilated container? Though times like these may have been longer ago to some of us depending upon our age‚ we were all children then‚ and no matter how long ago it was we
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Aristotle and Thomas Hobbes were two of the most influential philosophers of all time. Aristotle was a Greek Philosopher who was a student of Plato in the 300 B.C. Thomas Hobbes was an English Philosopher in the 16th century who focused mostly on morality and politics. While both of these philosophers studied many other areas of education‚ they are both famous for their own theories of virtue. Aristotle’s beliefs of virtue revolve around “teleology”‚ the highest good and how one achieves that.
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