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13 Cards in this Set
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"All men by nature desire knowledge." |
Aristotle |
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." |
Aristotle |
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"Education is the best provision for old age." |
Aristotle |
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"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, 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." |
Aristotle |
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." |
Aristotle |
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"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." |
Aristotle |
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves." |
Aristotle |
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"To understand a theory you need to know its context." |
Alisdair Macintyre |
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"Man is a political and social animal." |
Aristotle |
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Despite their differences, the virtues all have the same general sort of value: they are all qualities needed for successful human living." |
James Rachels |
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"The good of man is an activity of the soul in conformity with virtue." |
Aristotle |
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"Our concepts of moral obligation and moral duty are derived from a theological-legal tradition that is no longer dominant." |
Elizabeth Anscombe |
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"Deontological systems focus on an egoistic, minimal morality whose basic principles seem more preventative than positive" |
Pojman |
