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19 Δεκ 2013 · Aristotle calls good habits excellences or virtues. Virtues of the mind are intellectual virtues; while virtues exemplified by a regular disposition to choose correctly are moral virtues. For Aristotle, wisdom is the most important intellectual virtue but moral virtue plays a special role in living well. The reason moral virtue—the habit of ...
A summary of Book 10 in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Nicomachean Ethics and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
According to Aristotle, eudaimonia means living well, favored by god. Despite its etymology, Aristotle viewed it as a synonym of eu zen, which is a definition of happiness. Aristotle’s good life is the pursuit of virtues, which are morally ‘good’ ways of living a life.
In Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives us a broad view of what he thinks it means to live a good life. For Aristotle, the good life is one in which we develop and exercise the distinctive human ability to think and act rationally.
Aristotle says the aim of living is the good life. However, this good life is not just any life of pleasure, for Aristotle distinguishes between apparent goods and real goods. Society...
Key Concepts. Final vs. Instrumental Ends. Happiness. Virtue. Natural vs. Habitual Properties. Moral Particularism. The Ultimate Goal of Our Lives (I.7) The following is one of the most famous passages in all of Western philosophy, an excerpt from Book 1, Chapter 7 of Nicomachean Ethics.
15 Νοε 2012 · Aristotle conceives of God as an unmoved mover, the primary cause responsible for the shapeliness of motion in the natural order, and as divine nous, the perfect actuality of thought thinking itself, which, as the epitome of substance, exercises its influence on natural beings as their final cause.
