Assignment 5: Long Paper 1
According to Aristotle, the best life to live is a life of pursuing knowledge. Not only pursuing it but understanding it too. Virtue is a very important aspect that one needs to consider when trying to live an all around good life. As a writer named Christine puts it:
Like others before him, such as Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who was interested in the best way to live a good life and to cultivate virtue. In particular, he believed virtue to be something that a person not only needs to understand but that a person also needs to live out in their actual lives. (Scarince, Christine).
Most human activities shoot for something that is considered good. The highest good is something that you can easily determine by looking at its end purpose or goal. You could ask questions like: does it create happiness in and of itself? Or, does it need further action to make it a good thing? The things that we pursue for their own sake, nothing else, must be the highest or supreme Good. …show more content…
This concept could definitely be true for animals, but human life aims at a higher end than animal life does. Even if there was one form of good that constituted happiness, our interest shouldn’t be in that, but more pointed to questions like: how can I be good? We should concern ourselves with ends we can pursue in normal, everyday human life.
A person is deemed “good” if they do what they are supposed to do and do it well. This is true in many aspects of human life and activities. The specific human activity that differentiates us from animals and plants is our ability to rationalize. In that case, the highest Good would be an activity that goes along with virtue. A person that is good will behave virtuously even if he or she is faced with death, famine, plague, sickness, or any other misfortune. A good person will behave in a good, virtuous manner, no matter what the
According to Aristotle, the best life to live is a life of pursuing knowledge. Not only pursuing it but understanding it too. Virtue is a very important aspect that one needs to consider when trying to live an all around good life. As a writer named Christine puts it:
Like others before him, such as Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who was interested in the best way to live a good life and to cultivate virtue. In particular, he believed virtue to be something that a person not only needs to understand but that a person also needs to live out in their actual lives. (Scarince, Christine).
Most human activities shoot for something that is considered good. The highest good is something that you can easily determine by looking at its end purpose or goal. You could ask questions like: does it create happiness in and of itself? Or, does it need further action to make it a good thing? The things that we pursue for their own sake, nothing else, must be the highest or supreme Good. …show more content…
This concept could definitely be true for animals, but human life aims at a higher end than animal life does. Even if there was one form of good that constituted happiness, our interest shouldn’t be in that, but more pointed to questions like: how can I be good? We should concern ourselves with ends we can pursue in normal, everyday human life.
A person is deemed “good” if they do what they are supposed to do and do it well. This is true in many aspects of human life and activities. The specific human activity that differentiates us from animals and plants is our ability to rationalize. In that case, the highest Good would be an activity that goes along with virtue. A person that is good will behave virtuously even if he or she is faced with death, famine, plague, sickness, or any other misfortune. A good person will behave in a good, virtuous manner, no matter what the