An Analytical Validation to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics makes the claim that if there lie preliminary ambitions in an individual’s life then they exist as simple means to an ultimate and specific objective in order to serve a purpose for the individual’s life. Morality, virtue, and ethics are further examined to assert that the root of the underlying objective is something that can neither be disposed or deposed by another man; but that a man must find resoluteness of that moral ambition for himself, or else it is not actually achieved. He outlines this universal ambition as happiness; the ultimate state which all of mankind’s values set to accomplish, and to which no further accomplishment exists. In his search, Aristotle goes …show more content…
At the outset of Aristotle’s claim, reason accords for human action and behavior. If this is true, it must account for individuals who, by neurological deficiencies, cannot perform the necessary requirements to fulfill Aristotle’s two-fold process, “In the sense of being obedient to reason” and in the sense of possessing reason and intelligence” (Aristotle, cited by Fiero 120) A elice 2 mentally impaired or disabled individual will still have intelligence distinguished from that of a plant or animal life, however their ability to carry out these rational functions may be severely affected by their limitations. Therefore as Aristotle states in regards to this mean, “The right amount will vary with the individual. Not the absolute mean, but the mean considered relatively to ourselves”. (Fiero, 120) In stating this, Aristotle excuses this individual by utilizing a practical but relative clause pertaining to the law of excess and deficiency. He explains,
“everybody who understands himself avoids excess and deficiency; choosing the mean”. (Fiero,
120) Note that an alternative option must be presented in order for the individual’s choice to
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics makes the claim that if there lie preliminary ambitions in an individual’s life then they exist as simple means to an ultimate and specific objective in order to serve a purpose for the individual’s life. Morality, virtue, and ethics are further examined to assert that the root of the underlying objective is something that can neither be disposed or deposed by another man; but that a man must find resoluteness of that moral ambition for himself, or else it is not actually achieved. He outlines this universal ambition as happiness; the ultimate state which all of mankind’s values set to accomplish, and to which no further accomplishment exists. In his search, Aristotle goes …show more content…
At the outset of Aristotle’s claim, reason accords for human action and behavior. If this is true, it must account for individuals who, by neurological deficiencies, cannot perform the necessary requirements to fulfill Aristotle’s two-fold process, “In the sense of being obedient to reason” and in the sense of possessing reason and intelligence” (Aristotle, cited by Fiero 120) A elice 2 mentally impaired or disabled individual will still have intelligence distinguished from that of a plant or animal life, however their ability to carry out these rational functions may be severely affected by their limitations. Therefore as Aristotle states in regards to this mean, “The right amount will vary with the individual. Not the absolute mean, but the mean considered relatively to ourselves”. (Fiero, 120) In stating this, Aristotle excuses this individual by utilizing a practical but relative clause pertaining to the law of excess and deficiency. He explains,
“everybody who understands himself avoids excess and deficiency; choosing the mean”. (Fiero,
120) Note that an alternative option must be presented in order for the individual’s choice to