Works by Aristotle

Brown Course: Ethics: Business issues Date: 09/20/2012 Paper on Aristotle and Relationships at Work Aristotle is known as one of outstanding thinkers revealing the ideas of eternal wisdom to humanity. No wonder that his ethical ideas on civic relationships still find their reflection in modern-day conceptions of successful life. In the following paper, Aristotle’s ethical findings on the best way of living described in his work “Nicomachean Ethics” will be compared to the findings by modern-day

used by President Bush is the typical liberal appeal to the class consciousness of the working class used by former vice presidential candidate John Edwards. On the campaign trail he spoke of two Americas: people who are "set for life" and do not work, and those who scrape by living paycheck to paycheck (Miller 2005). According to Miller, Edwards intends for the audience to imagine the first as idle aristocrats. Considering the semantics of the language used, the term "set for life," describing

thesis or narrative for example, the purpose of the piece has several lenses that shape how the reader perceives the material. Of the less important lenses that shape the piece, mood, word choice, and rhetoric are only a few. These elements of the work, while minimal in a relative sense, accomplish the same as other, more important components, they influence how the reader perceives the material, how it is understood. If one is to effectively convey the message of the piece, one must first look at

Morality –principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour (Oxford University Press, 2014) — has been a topic of discussion for centuries. From Aristotle’s work on ethics in “Nicomachean Ethics” to Nietzsche’s perspective in “Beyond Good and Evil”, morality has been a widely controversial topic that arises amongst different cultures and societies over time. As it has been addressed overall, morality allows people to aim to behave accordingly to principles that

INFLUENCE OF ARISTOTLE TO DANTE ALIGHIERI IS PREVAILENT IN HIS WORKS In partial fulfillment Of the Requirement in English IV Dante continually refers to Aristotle as the “master” or the “great philosopher” in most of his non-fictional works like the De Monarchia. The foundation of Dante’s philosophy is said to be founded from the teachings of St. Aquinas and St. Augustine because Dante’s idea of a universal ruler is based from St. Aquinas’ idea “that the church exercises its authority

the cause of changes, why it time so important to us, what is is space, who causes motion? These are the basic factor that we face every single day. I will use Aristotle’s masterpiece work physics to explain what time is, and how relates to change. I will explain the causality of changes. Hopefully at the end of my work you come to an understanding that there must be a supreme being who is behind chance, time, change, motion. If God is not behind time, change, change, the harmony of beings would be

Virtue ethics was born from the works of Aristotle and Plato. Virtue ethics focuses on a person’s character rather then the acts committed. The main goal of virtue ethics is finding happiness and becoming an excellent person. To become an excellent person, they must get rid of their vices and achieve more virtues. Vices are bad character traits about a person and virtues are good character traits. A person gets rid of their vices by following the example of an excellent person. For a person to get

Aristotle begins book VIII by setting some ground work on friendship. Aristotle explains that friendship is something that is “ indispensable for life.” Not one person chooses to not have friends, therefore, it something that involves everyone. He later goes in depth on the fact that there are three categories of friendship: useful, pleasure, and goodness. Useful friendship is when each individual has a benefit from the other. In the case of pleasure friendship, each person in the relationship are

Aristotle developed an organizational system for living organisms through his work in the De Anima, putting them into three categories; plant, animal, and human. The level the soul resides is known as its Potentiality of the Soul, and moving up these levels is similar to moving up a staircase, see the above diagram. Each step up is the next step on the hierarchy. One must realize nutrition to move up the stairs to locomotion and perception, and must recognize the prior three to reach mentation.

Aristotle, distinguished by many as the most intelligent man to walk on this planet, has molded minds of many generations with his works and contributions. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and commonly known as the teacher of Alexander the Great, influenced the roots of education and the very concept of thought with his works on physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music and logic. An influential person influences not only a nation for a short time, but rather someone who could influence the world