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Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" and Machiavelli's "The Prince", 2004.
Compares and contrasts the accounts of virtue in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" and Machiavelli's "The Prince".
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This paper reviews and analyzes the meaning of virtue and moral and ethical values in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" and Machiavelli's "The Prince", then offers a comparison and contrast of the authors' views on these topics. Questions regarding the meaning of happiness and what qualities are needed to be the best type of prince are presented, and answers are provided, according to the beliefs of both Aristotle and Machiavelli.
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"The moral virtues are received through initial practices. Virtuous perfection deals with bliss and suffering; it is because of bliss that one indulges in wrong doings and because of suffering that one shuns good deeds. One becomes ethical by doing things in an ethical manner, composed by doing composed acts and daring by performing courageous acts. Intellectual virtue is higher than moral virtue; Intellectual virtue is directed at wisdom; while moral virtue intends modulation of human actions. Intellectual virtue is constructive wisdom (techne or creativity), realistic intelligence (phronesis or austerity), discipline (episteme), knowledge (Sophia), and smart insight (nous). Disciplinary knowledge comprises of the last three. Intellectual virtue (such as nous) is superior to moral virtue, such as bravery, impartiality etc. Hence the spirit must indulge itself into practice or performance of nous (pure experience or observance)."
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Aristotle's Ethics, 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," which express the Greek philosopher's numerous fundamental concerns.
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This paper examines Aristotle's argument that the happiest life is the one in which a person does everything for philosophical contemplation. The philosopher contends that a life lived for the sake of morally virtuous activity is happy, though in a lesser sense. This paper explores the contents of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," in which the philosopher establishes the idea of a goal-directed activity as the concept necessary for an understanding of human goodness and excellence. This paper analyzes Aristotle's frequent use of the term Eudemonia, the Greek word for happiness. The writer of this paper contends and explains why eudemonia is constituted, in Aristotle's opinion, not by honor, or wealth, or power but by rational activity in harmony with excellence. This paper also focuses on Aristotle's lengthy dialogues on moral virtue and friendship and his evident admiration for the morally virtuous person, which led many to assume that human good is the exercise of practical and not theoretical virtue.
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"The best way to make sense of the notion is to observe happiness as something of a framework for all the other various goods that we aim for. We achieve eudaimonia with the correct ordering of such items, by imposing a pattern on our activities that gives all of them the fitting significance, by adopting a suitable hierarchy for all the different goods pursued by mankind. Therefore, eudaimonia consists of many different goods and will provide the general significance to all of them (providing a significant meaning to our lives). Eudaimonia is not achieved by actively seeking it. Rather, it is attained it by ordering our pursuit of all the other goods in the proper manner. Happiness, which is the highest and final goal of human existence, is, in other words, somewhat of a by-product of carrying out our pursuit of all the other goods (wealth, fame, learning, and so on) in the correct manner."
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Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", 2006.
This paper reviews Book IX of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," and the philosopher's argument whether a happy man really needs friends.
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The author of this paper outlines Aristotle's view on the nature of friendship and goodness. In Book IX, the Greek philosopher concedes that everyone is not the same and that these dissimilarities may be a detriment to friendship. The writer stresses Aristotle's opinion that according to the ethics of the time, a good man would want for a friend what he would want for himself. This paper shows why Aristotle's philosophy continues to have an influence on developing Western philosophical theories.
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"Aristotle assumes that a happy man is also a good man. This will be elaborated further in this paper. First, in a consideration of friendship, let us look at what friendship does for the good and happy person. Aristotle's view is that the one characteristic of a friend is rather to do something good for a friend than to do something good for himself. This is of course a virtue. So the good man, being good, would need to do good things for other people. Because
the good man enjoys doing this, many people will be attracted to him and want to have him for their friend. And so many will also do good things for the good person, because they are his friends. And thus goodness and friendship feed upon each other. This need to do good things for people is the basis that Aristotle uses for his view that we need friends both in prosperity and adversity."
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 2007.
A discussion on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", focusing on voluntary actions and responsibility for character.
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This paper discusses Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" which argues that one is responsible for one's character because character results from voluntary actions. The paper outlines Aristotle's main argument and discusses his view on actions done in ignorance. The paper concludes by suggesting a case where an agent did not know that her actions would harm her character and discusses whether, according to Aristotle,
she would still be responsible for her character.
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"A good and virtuous person (that is, a person who practices and perfects virtues through moral education) will strive to behave both rationally and virtuously, whatever his or her conditions and circumstances; the person has, in essence, trained himself or herself to remain both rational and virtuous. Virtuousness means to not demean ones self or others, and to avoid descending into pettiness; jealousy; or meanness (vices). Therefore, one who harms her character due to ignorance is not virtuous, although still rational. Moral education can put that person on the path toward virtuousness, and toward achieving happiness based on virtues, morals, and ethics rather than on practicing vices."
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 1995.
This paper examines Book I of Aristotle's Ethics: Theory, individual ethics, role of state, reason, knowledge, happiness, politics, goodness, ends, virtue and psychology.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Book I of Aristotle's Ethics. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms Aristotle's ethical theory, and then to discuss the goals and achievements of the Ethics in respect of the main arguments made in the work, especially relative to analyses of the highest achievable good and the aim of happiness as functions of ethics and virtue.
Aristotle's theory of ethics is that it is one of the practical sciences, which is to say that ethics is something that has application to real life, beyond the merely theoretical. Ethics therefore involves action as well as a discussion about contingent ethical decisions. Just as ethics involves something beyond theory, any actions undertaken have a practical purpose beyond their mere ethical nature. Actions on this view point in ... "
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Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics", 2002.
This is a book-by-book breakdown of the important topics presented by Aristotle of good and the pursuit of happiness in his book "Nicomachean Ethics".
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This is a summary of Aristotle?s Nicomachean Ethics that emphasizes Aristotle's big influence in the world of ethics. His work amplifies and analyzes the concepts of many ethical issues. Since his book is divided into ten books, this term paper is also divided into 10 different, complete summaries.
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"All knowledge and every pursuit aim at some good. Happiness is directly related to living well and doing well. Happiness is a complete and sufficient good. Most people associate happiness with pleasure. A life of pleasure is what man seeks out. There are three prominent types of lives: the pleasure life, the political life, and the contemplative life. The contemplative life is one, which practices the best activity. The best activity brings perfect happiness. The contemplative life is by far the happiest life. Aristotle explains that the good of anything is to perform its characteristic activity well."
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Aristotle and Ethics, 2007.
This paper studies Aristotle's views on virtue and ethics.
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In this article, the writer notes that in the second book of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines the relation between character and virtue as being mediated by or depending on the two antagonist feelings of pleasure and pain. The writer then points out that Aristotle's proposition that virtue is about pleasure and pain implies that goodness is inevitably related to the feelings that accompany an action. In this way, one sees that, for Aristotle, the optimal actions of a certain human being are the result of the virtuous character, which is in fact, a state of the soul. The writer notes that the virtuous character is in its turn, determined by the other states, or the feelings of pleasure and pain experienced in a certain situation or when performing a particular action. The writer concludes that Aristotle's implication is that no action is good of itself, unless supported by the proper feelings, and that this would be the essence of ethics.
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"Thus, it is imperative to discriminate between, for example, an individual who abstains and enjoys abstaining, and an individual who is equally abstinent, but does this with great pain. The distinction between these two apparently identical and good actions is, according to Aristotle, precisely one of virtue of character."
"This is why, in his view the reaction of either pleasure or pain to a certain situation or state of facts always determines the character of a certain person. However, to attain virtue is not at all simple, given the fact that, as Aristotle asserts we are used to indulging in wrong actions that provide us with pleasure."
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Aristotle's Ethics and Bentham's Principle of Utility, 2002.
A paper outlining the points of views of two philosophers on Aristotelian Ethics as portrayed in "Nicomachean Ethics" and Bentham?s "Principle Of Utility"
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This paper briefly examines each philosopher's views on ethics individually. It then proceeds to compare these views with each other and looks on what these theories are based. Concepts examined are happiness, truth, pleasure, wealth, honor and justice.
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"Aristotle agreed with the Platonic view that the soul consists of its rational and irrational components, and that the excellences or virtues pertaining to the two parts are the intellectual and the moral. The irrational part he further divided into the vegetative [or biological] functions and the appetitive [or desires] that may be partly rational."
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Aristotle's Ethics, 2004.
An analysis of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's conception of man's happiness.
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Greek philosopher, Aristotle, within the opening books of "The Nicomachean Ethics", attempts to produce a comprehensive argument regarding the nature of man, his purpose, and his conception of happiness. This paper shows that he organizes his case around the notion that every action taken throughout one's life is done with the intent of reaching some ultimate goal; the specific material and ideological form of this goal, however, is not altogether clear without substantial investigation.
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"Still, this objection may not be abundantly clear. After all, one of Aristotle's premises is that noble and virtuous acts reward the soul immeasurably, and quite obviously, a tiger hunting or a child throwing a ball are not generally regarded as laudable actions; additionally, the tiger's capacity for rational decision making is debatable. But, the centerpiece of Aristotle's argument is that human actions act towards some good. This good is suggested by the relationship between actions and the intended favorable outcomes. However, this relationship may merely be a consequence of the existence of time and not a consequence of a single human goal."
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Ethics of Aristotle, 2002.
A discussion of the philosopher Aristotle's beliefs and doctrines concerning ethics.
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This paper considers Aristotle?s philosophy on ethics by discussing the various arguments made in his work, ?Nicomachean Ethics.? It shows how Aristotle bases his theories on the belief that every action is aimed at some good and that there exists a supreme good which is the ultimate aim of all human activity. According to Aristotle, this supreme good is happiness, the state that every individual is ultimately seeking. It examines how this happiness can be obtained by the internal processes of the individual, which impact their actions, with these actions based on developing habit. It concludes that. while Aristotle?s argument has some questionable points;overall, it is an effective model for ethical behavior.
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"The second thing that Aristotle rejected as a means of achieving happiness is honor. Honor is achieved by society recognizing an individual. This can also include honor in the form of fame, which is a type of honor based on an individual being recognized for something. In considering why honor is not the ultimate source of happiness, it must be noted that if honor were the ultimate source of happiness, individuals would operate on the basis of being recognized for their actions. This would result in a focus on being accepted by others. This focus on expecting honor as a reward for good actions, undermines the real search for happiness."
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Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, 1997.
Examines concepts of moral habit & responsibility, virtue, choice, happiness, ethical action and in sociopolitical context.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Aristotle's account of moral habituation and responsibility as articulated in the Nicomachean Ethics. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which Aristotle's description of private virtue and social responsibility emerges, and then to discuss Aristotle's reasons for claiming that the habits of moral excellence (virtue) are formed in childhood on one hand and how that view can be reconciled with the view that virtue involves choice on the other.
To appreciate Aristotle's explanation of virtue and responsibility as aspects of ethics, it is first necessary to realize the world view from which that explanation arises. Aristotle views ethics as a so-called practical science, which is to say that ethics is something that has application to real life beyond.."
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Aristotle?s "Nicomachean Ethics", 2005.
This paper discusses "Nicomachean Ethics" in which Aristotle develops his ideas about excellence, virtue and wisdom.
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This paper explains that, in his "Nicomachean Ethics", Aristotle distinguishes between excellence and virtue and recognizes the crucial role of wisdom; his idea that every situation should be considered in isolation according to its circumstances has served as a model for the U.S. court system. The author points out that the crux of his argument is the belief that an individual cannot be good if he or she does not possess practical reason and the same individual may not truthfully be called wise without moral excellence. The paper relates that Aristotle makes explicit the relationship between practical wisdom and excellence by stating that practical wisdom visualizes a worthy goal; whereas, excellence enables the goal to be reached.
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"Aristotle buffers his premise with an example gleaned from government. He states the common fallacy that a state in accordance with right reason is implied excellence. However, Aristotle believes that only a state which "implies the presence of right reason" can be excellence. Adherence to or agreement with right reason is not enough; the state must be the embodiment of right reason, or practical wisdom. Furthermore, Aristotle then reminds the reader that Socrates was incorrect when he theorized that excellences were all forms of knowledge, when, in fact, according to Aristotle they make use of reason."
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The Writings of Aristotle: Politics, Philosophy, Drama, Ethics and Science, 2002.
This paper argues that Aristotle?s writing formed a transition between the teaching of Socrates and that of the later Greek philosophers.
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The paper describes Aristotle as one of the last followers of Socrates and the Socratic condition. Much of what he wrote and taught was an extension of that set of beliefs. However, the paper continues to say that his work also differed from that of both Plato and Socrates in several significant ways.
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"Aristotle was born in Stagira in 384 B.C. He was interested in philosophy from a very early age, and when he was seventeen he became a student of Plato?s. He remained with Plato, first as a student and then as a teacher, until he was invited to become a private teacher for Alexander in 343 B.C. This lasted for seven years, and Aristotle regarded the time spent as basically wasted. He was interested in reaching a broader audience, and in 336 B.C., when he started a school called the Lyceum, he had found his niche. He continued to teach until he died in 322 B.C. at the age of 62 (Burns, p.129). "
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?Nicomachean Ethics?, 2002.
A look at the concept of justice in Aristotle's ?Nicomachean Ethics?.
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In "Nicomachean Ethics", Aristotle?s attempts to come to an understanding of human nature ultimately lead him to an understanding of justice. The paper shows how he attempts to understand how humans can reach true happiness, and delves deeply into the definitions of true happiness (eudaimonia) and virtue and outlines how virtue and happiness are intertwined. The paper discusses how Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" deals with metaphysics and focuses on ideas like soul, happiness, virtue and friendship. In Nicomachean Ethics, he concludes that happiness ultimately derives from activities of the soul that are in accordance with virtue.
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"Aristotle defines two types of justice: natural justice and legal justice. Natural justice is the same across time, and countries. From observation, Aristotle notes that this type of justice can be difficult to see. As such, different definitions of justice are held by different regimes and governments, in spite of their good intentions. Natural justice is unchanging in principle. In differentiating the two types of Justice, Aristotle notes, "Of political justice part is natural, part legal, natural, that which everywhere has the same force and does not exist by people's thinking this or that; legal, that which is originally indifferent, but when it has been laid down is not indifferent" (Book V)."
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Aristotle and "Today's Moral Issues", 2002.
A comparason of the themes in "Today's Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives" by Daniel Bonevac with Aristotle's "Nichomacean Ethics".
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This paper will discuss the book by Daniel Bonevac called "Today's Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives" and make a contrast and comparison to Aristotle's "Nichomacean Ethics" and the vices and virtues of Philippa Foot. By analyzing these two perspectives we can see how they relate in the philosophies that the present and give a better understanding of how they contrast within the spheres of thought that they seem to represent. By revealing what the author of this book tells us about morality in today's society, we can see how these other thinkers think in relation to him.
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