Nicomachean Ethics

Everyone wants to be happy and live a good life, but how is this achieved and sustained? In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle writes about how to live the good life by reaching a state of Eudaimonia or “happiness”. Eudaimonia is the optimal state of being that is achieved by living at full capacity and utilizing all of your potential to internally benefit yourself and externally benefit those around you. In order to attain this Aristotle believes a person needs to practice what is right through

Nicomachean Ethics (APA Citation) From the beginning of their evolution, human beings have been searching for the meaning of happiness. While many may see this to be an inconsequential question, others have devoted entire lives to the search for happiness. One such person who devoted a great deal of thought to the question of man's happiness was the famous ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle. In his book The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discussed the meaning of happiness and what it meant

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, at an absolute basic sense, aims at the title of this course: the good life. In an age where philosophy and ethics were not largely developed, Aristotle aims to provide a universal standard for human flourishing and happiness, or the good life. His main argument is that all of our actions and goals are aiming towards human flourishment, but that each action falls into a range of virtues, where excess is one extreme and deficiency is the other extreme. The virtue

about ethics. As Heidegger wrote his theories two thousand years later, it come to question, is Heidegger just contrasting Aristotle because as later stated it is hard to achieve both theories at the same time. Aristotle main points are trying to pursuing excellence with reason and Heidger compares one's authentic self and inauthentic self. This paper is discussing each philosophical theory pertaining to ethics and how these two philosophers relate to each other. Aristotle book “Nicomachean Ethics”

Topic 1: In Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle defines virtue as “the mean relative to us.” In separate paragraphs, please describe briefly the basic notion of virtue as a mean, and then explain why he believes that such a mean is relative to us. Provide quotations/examples to support your claims. Include a final paragraph in which you explain your views on this issue of relativity. Be sure to take into consideration the counter-arguments we discussed in class. The mean is relative

individuals are made out of a mix of bad habit (awful character qualities) and excellence (great character attributes). He utilizes this idea to clarify the proposition: Virtue is a mien worried with decision. This is clarified in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Be that as it may, the proposal can't be comprehended without a comprehension of what precisely an air is. Aristotle trusted that demeanors are one of three gatherings of things that make up the spirit. Sentiments and limits are the other two;

I have multiple objections when it comes to Nicomachean Ethics. In my opinion, I believe that is very discouraging. Aristotle stated, “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good” (Aristotle 624). There are multiple individuals like criminals for instance, believe that they are doing a good when they shoot a bank or rob a person on the street. They are not achieving in any action a good. But if think about on the opposite spectrum of military

Friedrich Nietzsche and Aristotle were great philosophers of their respective times, but their ideas and beliefs were completely different from each other. The focus of this paper will be on Nietzsche’s critique of Nicomachean Ethics by using On the Genealogy of Morals. Nietzsche had a different outlook on philosophy, especially in historical and goal oriented terms. According to Nietzsche, everything, including virtues, needed to be understood through change and historical development. Aristotle

In books eight and nine of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that a friendship between a benefactor and benefactee is inherently inferior to a friendship between equals because it is “full of complaints.” One person asks for service and the other provides a service with the assumption that he will receive the equivalent. Issues arise when one party is not able to repay the other or in the wake of discrepancies about the value of the service. According to Aristotle, the the best friendships occur

skills can influence our developing characteristics, either positively or negatively. Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics and Alistair MacIntyre in After Virtue involve virtue theory to moral decision making. Both philosophers have different standpoints on the enforcing virtue ethics on humans because they lived in different time periods; however, both mentioned the notions of virtue theory. In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s outlook on virtue theory leads back to the highest good -- Eudaimonia, or happiness