Eudaimonia is a good that encompasses that of what makes a human flourish: completeness‚ which is done for the sake of nothing else‚ and self-sufficiency‚ which is lacking in nothing. Flourishing means that one has reached the highest good and that they are happy. But reaching the capability of achieving eudaimonia means that the person who reaches it is that of their most virtuous self. Someone who is virtuous
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own responsibility for their behavior and accept their fate with dignity. In Sophocles‚ Antigone there are two types of tragic heroes a traditional tragic hero and a sophoclean tragic hero. Traditional Greek tragic heroes have four main qualities: Arete‚ a type of excellence‚ Hubris‚ an excessive degree of pride‚ Ate‚ imprudence of blind recklessness and Nemesis‚ disastrous retribution. A Sophoclean hero is one who is rigid and whose courageous loyalty to a particular principle invites a disastrous
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Ethics‚ or Moral Philosophy‚ is the branch of Philosophy dealing with the questions of what is good and bad‚ what is right and wrong‚ trying to assess what moral duty is. Examples of Ethical Questions: What is a morally good outcome? What is a morally right action? Are moral values universal or relative? Where do moral values come from? What is a just political system? Are you responsible for poverty? Do we have a right to a good death? Would you invade a country that is practicing ethnic
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acts would be difficult to define. In this essay‚ I will explore these contrasting ethical positions to prove that ethics should be more concerned with what you do than who you are. Aristotle’s theory is ultimately based on the idea of reaching eudaimonia‚ and this was something which‚ unlike the theories of Bentham and Mill‚ was sought for itself rather than as a means to some other end. The virtues that lead to this “happiness” are described by Aristotle to be like a habit‚ they should be learnt
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Ethics. A ‘’virtue’’ are qualities that lead to a good life e.g. courage and honesty. Aristotle explains for a person to adopt these qualities into their own lives is to maximise their potential to achieve a happy life and he goes on to explain Eudaimonia as being a quality of this happiness. However Aristotle then explains that a person should not act virtuously just to achieve a particular end because he believes this to be a subordinate aim. A person that acts in a way to achieve goodness Aristotle
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their name remembered. The Greeks strived to obtain the four concepts: Arete‚ Agon‚ Nike‚ and Kleos. In English this means the Greeks wanted excellence‚ contests‚ victory‚ and fame. In the movie‚ “Troy” Achilles fulfills all four‚ but he puts great interest into Kleos‚ as he wants to be “immortal”. Sisyphus strives for Nike‚ something he will never achieve due to his impossible task. The gods and goddesses are examples of Arete‚ since they are said to be beautiful and perfect. The Olympics are a great
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Aristotle had a few theories of ethics. Aristotle believed that one attains happiness by living a virtuous life and through the development of reason and the faculty of theoretical wisdom. He believed that moral virtue is a relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency and in general the moral life is one of moderation in all things except virtue. He believed that virtuous acts require conscious choice and moral purpose or motivation. Finally‚ he believed that moral virtue cannot be achieved
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of winds. Calypso – beautiful Nymph who falls inlove w/ Odysseus in her island of Ogygia. Tiresias – Blind prophet of the Underworld. Nausicaa – princess of the Phaeacians‚ found odysseus in the shores of Scherie/Scheria. King Alcinous & Queen Arete of Phaeacians – parents of Nausicaa & offered odysseus hospitality. Polyphemus – Cyclops; 3rd child of Poseidon who ate Antiphus. • Day of Telemachus’ birth same as day of departure. • 10 years @ war‚ 10 years voyage home. • Photocopy:
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“Without a social contract there would be no morality...” In this essay I will be debating whether moral motivation is purely existent as a result of a ‘social contract’ through an insight to conflicting philosophers’ hypothesis. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes supported the idea that a social contract is necessary in order for a moral society to be attainable. Hobbes argued that morality would be non-existent within ‘a state of nature’. This is a society that lives in the absence of a social
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“living the good life” even though they may be of a more austere status? Does wealth even really matter at all? This paper will aim to argue the point that attaining the good life successfully has more to do with virtue ethics‚ specifically attaining eudaimonia‚ in spite of statistics that do show happiness‚ or unhappiness‚ and income can be linked‚ and why virtue ethics may have more bearing on a person’s perception of living the good life than economics do. “Happiness is at a dead end” (O’Connor‚
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