Eudaimonia

Are people simply fickle? On a daily basis, as human beings, people interact. These interactions occur in many ways through talking, touching, presence and most frequently without individuals even being aware they are occurring. Subconsciously, an individual chooses to surround oneself with people that are similar to their own character. The way that individuals act with one another, is a basis for the ethical theories of philosophers. In the case of Appiah, his theory is that people behave in…

Justice is concerned with fairness and morality and virtue, a person who is just is not selfish and will willingly do the right thing no matter the effect it has on them. Justice demands this willingness to be fair, this is a characteristic that is extremely rare to come by. It is human nature to be concerned with the effects a certain action will have on yourself. A just person possesses the ability to set their thoughts about themselves aside and to act in a way that betters the whole (group,…

Aristotle’s calls happiness: eudaimonia. The word eudaimonia is Greek but it is translated as ‘happiness”. One of the main trouble is that happiness is understood to be a state of mind, for example when someone is enjoying an ice cream or is just simply “hanging out” with one’s friends. Yet for Aristotle, happiness is not just a state of happiness that can be gained or lost in a few hours but instead a final end that encloses one’s life. In his perspective, eudaimonia is the ultimate value of…

continues to say that the telos of human beings would be to reach their state of Eudaimonia, this is the edge of what humans want to reach, ultimate happiness (Aristotle Explained). Everyone can pursue their own special interests for one reason or another, but it all comes down to truly achieving the objective of the action, which is absolute happiness. This absolute happiness is one that is true and is lasting. Eudaimonia is achieved when a human is in balance with what defines one as a…

Simplified, the focus is to independently characterize what is good from what is right. This means that the action is determined by the consequences that follow, unlike Aristotle’s sole focus on getting it “right” or eudaimonia being unidentified until a human function is identified. This theory argues with Aristotle’s Virtue ethics because an action is right, if and only if, it maximizes good consequences amongst the action. To elaborate on this, there is a dilemma of…

The moral dilemma I have chosen to write about is Case 14, regarding the conception of “donor babies,” or infants conceived for the intentioned or expressed purpose of donating valuable bone marrow or tissue to a sibling. In such cases, doctors perform an amniocentesis procedure to determine if the fetus is a match, and if so, draw the needed marrow out using needles once the child is 14 months old. Advocates to this practice claim that “families love and cherish donor babies just as much as…

In addition, I will look at pleasure’s relation to eudaimonia and discuss why I agree with the majority of Aristotle’s arguments rather than the philosophers who view pleasure as an evil. Pleasure is considered a virtue that gives an individual a feeling of satisfaction after completing an action of some…

plays ball in the Na'vi's potential destruction. Avatar illustares Aristotle's idea of eudaimonia, which generally is the notion that one must be "flourishing" in life in order to achieve the supreme goal of happiness. Despite the fact that he knew he was not in his human body, Jake still enjoyed the time he had as a human Na’vi hybrid, also known as an Avatar, and he was able to appreciate the use of legs. Eudaimonia is achieving one’s full potential, doing well, living well, as well as…

appropriate characterization of Epicureanism is “rid yourself of false beliefs” because if you do than you will be able to achieve pleasure and ultimately happiness. Epicureanism is an interesting eudaimonia because it requires pleasure in order to live a good life but it is a eudaimonia no less than any other. Eudaimonia is defined as a right action that leads to a well being of an individual. Almost all ancient philosophers agree that happiness or virtue is the ultimate state of wellbeing.…

be in use, but rather a synthetic happiness through acceptance of all emotions, should be practiced to help people achieve a real happiness, a real state of well being. Happiness has two parts, hedonia, which is the pleasure of the senses, and eudaimonia, which is pleasure of reason, living well and doing well. Humans, as animals, are wired to feel happy, as a reward. This is the evolutionary teaching of positive reinforcement.…