LO2 Short Paper
In the Nichomachean Ethics we see that Aristotle covers in book 1 the simple premise that everyone has a desire to be happy. His works continue to show the best way for this to happen throughout the rest of this work, how our actions leads to this happiness. Though, this happiness is not just limited to the individual, but includes the community. Living a virtuous life is the only way to be truly happy; within this he shares some very specific virtues and how to realize them. The core of all virtue is the decision that one has to be virtuous, based on ones understand on their reason. The most important activity according to Aristotle is to study for then it leads to the understanding and in the end you will ultimately have the …show more content…
In his conclusion he goes on to propose that shows how the political systems do affect the virtues of the citizens to further construct a system which will then in turn the members are best served by encouragement and promoting a life of study, happiness and virtue. His belief is that happiness comes from one’s ability of living a life according to virtue, but to talk about virtue he says you must talk about the soul. His view is that the soul has two parts, a rational and non-rational part. One part of this non-rational part controls our basic functions of life and is done without our awareness of it happening, so it plays little or no part of his discussion. He describes another part of the non-rational which is where are simple desires come from and this is what causes conflict with the rational part. The rational part of soul is where our most important functions that are related to the virtue can be found. He explains that each part of our soul has a different kind of virtue and this balance between the soul’s rational and non-rational parts is the key
In the Nichomachean Ethics we see that Aristotle covers in book 1 the simple premise that everyone has a desire to be happy. His works continue to show the best way for this to happen throughout the rest of this work, how our actions leads to this happiness. Though, this happiness is not just limited to the individual, but includes the community. Living a virtuous life is the only way to be truly happy; within this he shares some very specific virtues and how to realize them. The core of all virtue is the decision that one has to be virtuous, based on ones understand on their reason. The most important activity according to Aristotle is to study for then it leads to the understanding and in the end you will ultimately have the …show more content…
In his conclusion he goes on to propose that shows how the political systems do affect the virtues of the citizens to further construct a system which will then in turn the members are best served by encouragement and promoting a life of study, happiness and virtue. His belief is that happiness comes from one’s ability of living a life according to virtue, but to talk about virtue he says you must talk about the soul. His view is that the soul has two parts, a rational and non-rational part. One part of this non-rational part controls our basic functions of life and is done without our awareness of it happening, so it plays little or no part of his discussion. He describes another part of the non-rational which is where are simple desires come from and this is what causes conflict with the rational part. The rational part of soul is where our most important functions that are related to the virtue can be found. He explains that each part of our soul has a different kind of virtue and this balance between the soul’s rational and non-rational parts is the key