Aristotle

According to Aristotle virtue is achieving excellence of the soul. (1) For man to become virtuous they must build habits that model virtuous behavior. Aristotle believed that moral virtue forms through habit and no one is born virtuous. Under this premise virtue is both learned and practiced through our behaviors. When one acts in a moral and virtuous way they become more virtuous, the opposite is true also that if one acts in a non-virtuous way they will learn to become less virtuous. To be virtuous

Intellectual virtues are learned by experience and time, whereas moral virtues are learned by habits and practice. Virtues are not given to us at birth (nature); we have to make our own effort to train ourselves to be virtuous. In the next few paragraphs, Aristotle emphasizes how pleasure and pain play an important role in how our moral virtues are developed. To explain he uses an example of a glutton and a temperate person and the pleasure/pain of food. Then he talks about how many people could be just but

Aristotle Politics Aristotle in his book politics, argues that the political association is the highest form of human association , and making all his conclusions based on the assumption that ‘polis’ is the best and only sensible political system. He further adds that political association is the most sovereign and aims at the highest good Politics is largely an attempt to determine or rather prove that political association is the best suited way for securing the happiness of its members

Aristotle argues there is a hierarchy to being; meaning some things are more fundamental than others. He believes there must be something on which everything else depends, and this can be understood by examining definition. A perfect definition should list just those things without which the subject could not exist without. This passage applies to Aristotle’s argument because it deals with clarifying the definition of ‘piety’. Socrates says “..you didn’t teach me adequately earlier when I

Aristotle segregates virtues into two categories and they are moral and intellectual. Aristotle believes that moral virtues is a product of habits, while intellectual virtues come from learning or life experience. He stated that since “nothing…can form a habit contrary to its nature” (Book II, 1), virtues are only possible to form by habits. For intellectual virtues, it can only be perfected over a period of a time, as well with experience. A more concrete point that will solidify this conclusion

Aristotle explains that anything that is living has a function, or something they’re meant to do. He says that what is good for X depends on the function of X. So the function of a nose is to smell, a good nose smells well or that the nose is virtuous when it smells things clearly because smelling well is the function of the nose. Similar to the nose, humans also have a function that is specific to the species because the species is alive and has something they’re meant to do. 3. Explain what the

Aristotle      In our fast paced technologically advanced society today, our governments have evolved into supposedly well oiled machines effectively managing budgets, jails, militaries, as well as many other programs. Unfortunately, many of these governments are not as well organized, as they could be. Democratic countries like France, Germany, and even the United States have some very serious shortcomings to the way their governments are managed. These problems occur, many times at a very basic

In order to understand this more completely, Aristotle says, “For even if the end is the same for a single man and for a state, that of the state seems at all events though it is worth while to attain the end merely for one man, it is finer and more godlike to attain it for a nation or for city-states” (Nicomachean Ethics, 66). Aristotle believes that the state and the individual should work hand in hand to be successful. Also, he believes

Aristotle The primary concern of political theorists is to determine by what form of constitution the state will most likely succeed. According to Aristotle the definition of political success means the general happiness of the citizenry. Both Aristotle and James Q. Wilson share the belief that molding excellent character within the citizenry is the first and most important step towards solidifying the happiness of the state as a whole. The basic structure of Aristotle’s philosophies

Aristotle      With the possible exception of Plato, Aristotle is the most influential philosopher in the history of logical thought. Logic into this century was basically Aristotelian logic. Aristotle dominated the study of the natural sciences until modern times. Aristotle, in some aspect, was the founder of biology; Charles Darwin considered him as the most important contributor to the subject. Aristotle’s Poetic, the first work of literary notice, had a string influence