Aristotle's Concept of Teleology

Aristotle was born at around 384 BCE in the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, where his father was the royal doctor. He grew up to me, arguably, the most influential philosopher ever, with nicknames like The Master or simply The Philosopher. His first big job was tutoring Alexander the Great, who soon after went out to conquer the known world. Aristotle then headed off to Athens, worked with Plato for a bit, and then branched out on his own. He founded a little school called the Lyceum. He liked to walk about while teaching and discussing ideas. His followers were nicknamed Peripatetic’s. His many books were actually lecture notes. Aristotle was fascinated by how many things actually work. Most importantly, what makes a human life and a

This document explores the meaning of human life, its purpose, what it serves for and also

Although there are many different ends, we choose only a certain one as a means to something else. It is clear that end chosen is not the only one rather it is chosen for one’s own sake. The one chosen for oneself is more final than the one for the sake of something as it is. The choice that is never chosen from oneself is more final than that which is chosen both as an end in itself and also a means to something else.

Throughout the world, many people believe that God created mankind through an unhurried act of free will and with certain ideas in mind. In addition, God already had a clear understanding of what he was creating before humanity existed. However, one could argue that humanity was created with no clear purpose in mind. Therefore, if we were shaped with no clear purpose in mind, why were we created in the first place? Our existence as individuals is eminent, but how we perceive the world around us varies from individual to individual. Whether we were created with a purpose or not, we have to examine the authenticity of our very existence with an existential perspective, where we will then learn how to grasp a better understanding of our purpose. Furthermore, we exist as individuals that are capable of having multiple versions

studying to learn the message and it was spread to the lower class which meant that God saw everyone as equals. Naturally this was very appealing to the lower classes which made up a larger percentage of the city. Augustine had a Pagan mother and a Christian father and after much of his own contemplation, he became a strong sponsor of the religion and said that if God showed grace to him, He would show grace to anyone.

In the Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” For millenniums, people sought the meaning of life; devising ideologies and doctrines one after the other, some diametrically opposite to each other, to find the ultimate and absolute purpose of human existence, trying to answer the question of all times: who in the world are human beings? Nonetheless, any possible response goes beyond human understanding; there is still no supreme destination that could be explained in any way but that of faith, hence a way neither provable nor refutable. Once assimilating the complexity of the matter, we’d better stop waiting for the unified solution and focus on setting personal goals and fill their lives with meaning, which would gradually take us to the answer.

action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of activity, not a quality.

Here we contemplate the labor of life. What of the end and moreover the aim? The former nothing but the continuation of the latter beyond a definite point. The practical uncertainty forms a highly comical contrast to what society decrees. Universal sufferance and ruthless energy as we sink deeper and deeper into the abyss. The fallacy of the happiness ever after an illusory theory of blind rhetoric. Conformity and ignorance crippling the courage of the mind and diminishing the spirit of the soul as we cling hopelessly to the concept of justice in the face of the inevitable catastrophe. Are we but a transitory and inferior form destined to disappear into historically conditioned oblivion? With the aim a necessity and the end absolute, we penetrate

What constitutes a “good life”? Aristotle sought the answer to this question. Two books, Nicomachean ethics and Eudemuan ethics, were dedicated to discovering what a good life is. He reached the conclusion that when someone acts, they are always striving towards some final goal. So how did Aristotle explain “eudaimonia” or perfect happiness? Eudaimonia is the ultimate good we strive towards, that requires no further questioning. What he means by no further questioning is this. Something that is the final good you want to acquire from your work. Aristotle looked over several possible answers before coming to his conclusion. First there is honor. But, we see that honor is just another tool to reach ultimate fulfillment. Likewise, pleasure

All individuals are in search of some good. Every one of our actions, skills and choices has an aim, and this aim is defined as the “good” of that particular activity (1094a1-3). While these activities are distinct, some may be classed into broader faculties. For example, ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics, logic and epistemology are all activities that fall under the more general faculty of philosophy. As a result, the individual ends of the former all work towards the superior good of the latter. (1094a9-16). However, such ends are incomplete - they are not pursued for their own sake, but for the sake of another superior goal.

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) was a Greek Philosopher from the Socratic/Classical period in Athens, Greece. Socrates developed a system of critical reasoning in order to determine how to live properly and tell the difference between right and wrong. Aristotle was one of his followers along with Plato and they made a commitment to the truth, and organized and systematized most of the problems of philosophy. He is one of the most important figures in Western Philosophy and was the first person to create a comprehensive system of philosophy.

Probably the MVP of questions, "What is the purpose of life?", has come across all human beings thought 's some time or another and for each individual they most likely pondered this topic on many occasions throughout their life 's. Many people find solace in their religions, others look to the ancients and the stars, while some just trust in nature. Maybe within all of these outlooks you can find truths about the meaning of life, but is the meaning or purpose of life the same for each individual person? Within this paper I am going to touch on some viewpoints of some religions, the ancients and nature to aid in the discussion as well as share my views on what the objective of life is.

Parmenides, although generally ascribed the position of a monist, offers arguments through his poem that are not so clearly of monist persuasion and at times, creates a whole host of possible meanings. His views on metaphysics and cosmology seem to differ from his predecessor Heraclitus’ doctrine of flux, believing instead that all is continuously one and unchanging, maintaining that beings are what exist and non-beings cannot exist through the acknowledgement that what is existent cannot be created into existence or have existence taken away. His argument for all things being continuously one is, upon analysis, affected in strength by more contemporary arguments of interpretation and apparent change in meaning.

The question of what is the purpose of human beings; I believe is something that is

Through out history, as man progressed from a primitive animal to a "human being" capable of thought and reason, mankind has had to throw questions about the meaning of our own existence to ourselves. Out of those trail of thoughts appeared religion, art, and philosophy, the fundamental process of questioning about existence. Who we are, how we came to be, where we are going, what the most ideal state is....... All these questions had to be asked and if not given a definite answer, then at least given some idea as to how to begin to search for, as humans probed deeper and deeper into the riddle that we were all born into.