In his Nichomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle develops a robust definition of friendship. His definition provides distinctions between the true and perfect form of friendship and other inferior likenesses. Not only does he provide a framework for personal relationships‚ Aristotle also defines several different forms of constitutions and integrates friendship and justice into each. In light of his explanation and praise of monarchy‚ Aristotle agrees with Plato’s ideal of a philosopher king. Before such an
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deliberately; to choose his own course and have no one else influence his life. He doesn’t want to get old and look back and realize that there are things in life that he wanted to do‚ that he has never done. If everyone in a community lived by the virtues of individualism and self-sufficiency‚ then there would be no community. In a community‚ everyone contributes something. Individuals in a community work together‚ in order to solve problems and issues facing the community. Such as‚ if there has been
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Republic Book II: -Know the three classes of goods that Glaucon distinguishes at the beginning of the book; these are stated at the beginning of Book II; see p. 65. -Socrates says that justice is the highest or best kind of good. It is the sort of good that is desirable for its own sake‚ and for the sake of the consequences it brings. (Acting justly is both valuable to us in itself apart from its consequences‚ but it also is good insofar as being just brings about good consequences). -Glaucon
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of course‚ except their outstanding beauty. But there is more than one could expect. Firstly‚ both are being seduced by their masters‚ but each of them copes with it quite differently. Pamela Andrews is enormously addicted to maintenance of her virtue. Her virginity is her „Jewel“ according to advices of her parents‚ strong devoted Christians. This „Jewel“ characterises her actions and becomes the „obstacle“ of fullfillment of erotic imagination of her master Mr. B. Pamela would rather die than
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‘The only reason to be moral is because it is the right thing to do’ Discuss. Morality is defined as the principles of distinguishing between good and bad behaviour. We call the murderer an immoral person because they have committed a ‘bad’ action. We also stereotype charity workers as moral because they are devoted to helping others. But what motivates our moral behaviour? In an attempt to answer this‚ I will assess several key theories and thinkers to prove that morality is a means of achieving
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The virtue of ethics as define by Aristotle in its simplistic form is to discover the nature of human happiness. Happiness is the highest good and the end at which all our activities ultimately aim. The difficulty is that people don’t agree on what makes for a happy or good life‚ so the purpose of the ethics is to find an answer to this question. The answer is imprecise because practical circumstances vary a great deal when considering a person’s life as a whole. Aristotle defines virtue as a
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Kelcey PHIL 1320 Brant September 23‚ 2010 An Argument against Egoism I shall argue that the ideas of both psychological and ethical egoism are fundamentally flawed and should not be practiced. Egoism is flawed because it ignores the fact that people have a predisposition for compassion toward others that cannot be completely expelled from their motives of action. Egoism is also flawed due to the fact that altruism cannot coexist with egoism; therefore‚ because there is altruism in the world
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person’s life well and how we get there. Aristotle believes that the nature of morality is grounded in the function of persons‚ meaning that we must act in order to become happy and fulfilled. What are the functions of persons and how does one acquire virtue? To live a good life is to aim towards living a good life by acquiring habits that make one become good by doing good. Essentially human activity is aimed towards acquiring happiness for themselves and others to achieve a status of well-being. The
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Book II W. D. Ross translation Book II 1 Virtue‚ then‚ being of two kinds‚ intellectual and moral‚ intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time)‚ while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit‚ whence also its name (ethike) is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word ethos (habit). From this it is also plain that none of the moral virtues arises in us by nature; for nothing that exists by
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Socrates and Meno do not obtain a definition of virtue‚ while Socrates thinks that virtue is a kind of knowledge‚ and if virtue is knowledge‚ then it should be able to be both defined and taught. But most virtuous persons (virtue being some sort of excellence or another) don’t seem to be able to teach "virtue" to their own children (as told to Meno by Socrates). As a consequence of this‚ it is problematic for both Plato and Socrates to suppose that virtue is a sort of knowledge. What can be inferred
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