Everyone has an own achievement for life. Some dream to be a scientist who researches for humanity’s future. Some want to be an astronaut to explore the unknown universe. Why do humans dream? What is the logic lurking behind all action? Aristotle gives his explanation in his book Nicomachean Ethics in the first sentence, “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim” (3). Aristotle argues that all human activities aim at some end that we consider good, and happiness is the highest point of all good deeds that can be achieved.
Every action is aimed at some good, yet these aims vary between individual and context. The end of the medical art is health, …show more content…
Aristotle argues everyone can accomplish the best only in virtue of his inherent virtue. He describes the virtue “being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also its name (ethike) is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word ethos (habit)” (20). Thus, no one of our ethical virtues is naturally generated, because there is no natural thing can be changed by habit. Our virtue is neither produced by nature nor contrary to nature. Nature gives us the ability to accept virtue, and the maturity of this ability is accomplished by habit. Aristotle believes virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, and the best of choice of virtue is intermediate. For example, courage is between recklessness and cowardice. If one avoids everything for fear, does not dare to insist, one will become a coward; on the contrary, fearless, rampage on everything, one will become a boor. In all admirable emotions and actions, there is an intermediate
Every action is aimed at some good, yet these aims vary between individual and context. The end of the medical art is health, …show more content…
Aristotle argues everyone can accomplish the best only in virtue of his inherent virtue. He describes the virtue “being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also its name (ethike) is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word ethos (habit)” (20). Thus, no one of our ethical virtues is naturally generated, because there is no natural thing can be changed by habit. Our virtue is neither produced by nature nor contrary to nature. Nature gives us the ability to accept virtue, and the maturity of this ability is accomplished by habit. Aristotle believes virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, and the best of choice of virtue is intermediate. For example, courage is between recklessness and cowardice. If one avoids everything for fear, does not dare to insist, one will become a coward; on the contrary, fearless, rampage on everything, one will become a boor. In all admirable emotions and actions, there is an intermediate