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    Summary: The Rational Life-Aristotle Everything done is meant to be for only good reasons. Everything we do is to cause a better outcome for another purpose which leads to pleasure for something else. There must be some end. There is an ultimate point to life. Living well and doing well are both linked to happiness although the definition of happiness is different to many people. The unwise people think that happiness is plain and simple things like pleasure‚ wealth‚ and honor. Some people

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    Aristotle Aristotle was born in 384 b.c. in the small town of Stagira on the northeast coast of Thrace. His father was the physician to the king of Macedonia. It could be that Aristotle’s great interest in biology and sci ence in general was nurtured in his early childhood as it was the custom‚ according to Galen‚ for families in the guild of the Asclepiadae to train their sons in the art of dissection. When he was seventeen years old‚ Aristotle went to Athens to enroll in Plato’s Academy‚ where

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    According to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics‚ a life of excellence is the ultimate objective. He who aspires to achieve this life of excellence must understand the good‚ happiness‚ and morality. He must also understand how to live a life of temperance‚ without giving in to the pleasure of the extremes. If achieved‚ this life of excellence will ultimately lead to eudaimonia‚ which translates to happiness‚ success‚ and fulfillment. Aristotle states that every activity aims at some good. Although

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    Aristotle’s teaching of ethics primarily focuses on the good life‚ or more precisely‚ how one must go about to achieve the good life. In order to understand what the good life is‚ an examination of what is meant by ’the good’ is necessary. We often say things such as "that is a good car‚ that is a good computer‚ that is a good phone‚ etc." But what is it that allows us to make the judgement whether something is good or bad? If we take a closer look‚ something is either good or bad based on its operation

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    According to Aristotle the good life is the happy life‚ as happiness is an end in itself. He also believes that all actions aim at the good and that the good is happiness. I believe ‘some’ of Aristotle’s views on the good life are correct but I believe sometimes we can sacrifice our own happiness for someone else’s happiness and the people that don’t have the power to reason do have souls and they are still as human as everybody else. In order to make my point I will first have to explain Aristotle’s

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    Aristotle:Nicomachean Ethics Jonathan Rodriguez I. Introduction Aristotle is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical thinkers of all time. His writings compose of searching 'what is the purpose of life' and 'function of man'. His goal was to know what makes a 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

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    one should make in life in order to achieve happiness. This goal of explaining and defining the highest good for man was a concern for the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Christian philosopher St. Augustine. Aristotle provided his account of how one may achieve a good life in his Nicomachean Ethics and Augustine in his writings of the two cities – the city of man and the city of God. Aristotle gives a more subjective account of happiness based on an active life lived in accordance

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    an affectation in the appropriate amount. -for ex.Truthfulness: virtue regarding telling the truth about oneself Defect: self-depreciating Excess: phony omnipotence- all power and unlimited power • Distinguish goods that are‚ according to Aristotle‚ valued for the sake of other things‚ valued for their own sake‚ and valued for their own sake and for the sake of other things you want some things that gets you other stuff. for example money so its a sake for other things. valued for own sake-having

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    Question 7: Aristotle says we cannot really be happy without certain external goods that are not fully in our control: good family‚ friends‚ financial security‚ children‚ beauty. Do you agree? Do our external circumstances determine if we have a good life? Or can we have a good life by becoming independent of external circumstances? Answer: Before I begin to explain my answer to the first question‚ I think it’s important to note that Aristotle acknowledged the existence of contention between what

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    ARISTOTLE Aristotle was born on 384 BC in Stageira‚ Chalcidice 34 miles east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle educated as a member of aristocracy and at the age of eighteen‚ he went to Athens to do his further studies in Plato’s Academy. He was there at the beginning as a student of Plato‚ and then became a researcher and finally a teacher. Aristotle married Hermias’s niece Pythias who died ten years later. After

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