Eudaimonia

succeed are developed through coursework and experience. Virtue ethics was systematized by Aristotle and focused on what kind of person one should be as well as what is considered a good life. The three key concepts Aristotle focused on were telos, eudaimonia, and arete.…

Aristotelian agents to flourish. Furthermore, since our decisions promote the end, decisions must involve choosing activities for their own sakes, which require choice-worthiness, self-sufficiency, and completeness—the three conditions for Aristotelean eudaimonia. (III) How the Aporia in NE II.4 is Generated by Aristotle’s Assumptions about Virtue: The aporia is generated since it seems that we cannot perform just actions unless we are just, and we have to perform just actions to become just…

In the articles “Brittany Maynard, as promised, ends her life at 29” and “Brittany Maynard explains reasons for ending her life in her own words”, Brittany Maynard decides to end her own life during the end stages of her terminal brain cancer. In this essay, I will describe Maynard’s reasons for her decision to take her own life. I will show how Kant would argue that Maynard’s decision was morally impermissible by using the two formulations of the Categorical Imperative, and how Aristotle would…

Moral saints can be compared to angels living on earth. Unfortunately, not everyone can be saints. In this essay, I agree with Wolf in saying that it is impossible to strive to be a moral saint. Everyone has different lives that demand different levels of morality from them. Wolf and Aristotle will support this thesis, while Kant and Mill will be offer the counter arguments. Our own conception of a moral saint is someone who acts selflessly for the good of the society. They sacrifice their own…

will ultimately lead to eudaimonia. Aristotle believes there is only one thing with intrinsic value, which is eudaimonia. The conception of this term does not necessarily mean happiness, but is more closely related to human flourishing (Collier & Haliburton, 2015, p. 26). Therefore, individuals need to strive for human excellence in order to flourish. He believes that eudaimonia is the highest good and is beyond the particular ends or goals individuals aim to achieve. Eudaimonia is ultimately…

even though it has certain flaws. In Greek, ergon is function, which I will be explicating later in this essay. We should preform functions with excellence, which is also known as Arete. By this, we would essentially reach the good life, which is Eudaimonia. As Aristotle had a teleological understanding of the universe (Lacewing, M.2015. p113-115.), everything…

self- knowledge or the art of living, one must go back to the basics of Aristotle’s rationality principle and oversee their desires and impulses. All of the desires and impulses that we encounter on a daily basis are blocking the access to our eudaimonia. All human beings want happiness, yet within today’s society we focus so much on money, technology, careers, and things that abstract our attention away from human flourishing and we forget about taking care of our soul. The ability to talk…

The National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics states that an engineer will hold the safety, health, and welfare of the public as above all else in their practice. According to this statement, an engineer will have to use sound judgment during his/her work to make sure that the effects of the decision are both ethically good and safe for the public. Virtues or character traits that make a person succeed in their purpose blend into engineering since all of the decisions that we as…

1. How does Aristotle evidently define the term “form”? Aristotle defines the term “form” by connecting the fact that all substances are comprised of form and matter, and will always occur together. He also states that form is the essence, or ousia, of substance itself and can also be defined as shape, structure, order, or simply the making of what something is. Finally Aristotle defines the term “form” by stating that it cannot exist independently and can be distinguished from content only in…

Founded by Aristotle, Virtue Ethics does not look at an action (what we do), in and of itself; instead, it studies whether the person acting is good and in what ways (who we are). It is only through our disposition for virtue that we can achieve eudaimonia - happiness. It is important to remember that in Virtue Ethics a person can do the right thing with the wrong motives and not be considered virtuous. Aristotle believed that virtues were the highest qualities of humanity. Virtues ethics…