Eudaimonia

Plato’s Republic is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophical works of all time, which contemplates some of humanities most challenging questions. What is justice? And what type of life should one lead? These ideas are set out by Glaucon and Adeimantus in The Republic and attempt to determine whether a just life is more valuable than an unjust life. Socrates responds to this challenge by concluding that the just life is worth more than the unjust, however not even Socrates’s…

Fennel (2006) states ethics is originally derived from the Greek word ethos, which means ‘habitual mode of conduct’ and conduct will ensure that good is being done. There is a relationship could be found between moral value and practice. One value does not always appear connected with one fact. Many value often appear entangled within one situation. This could be called an ethical dilemma (Maeda, 2012).Ethical dilemma is provoked by touristic practice in relation to the perpetuation of social…

Intro: It is safe to say that every human being in the world wants to be happy. Humans crave the feeling of happiness. Sometimes happiness clouds decision making and causes people to make choices that aren’t the best for other people around them but satisfy their needs, which is quite selfish. People can make decisions based on happiness rather than what is morally right. This can cause many issues because if everyone just does things that make them happy, the world would be filled with…

Explain with examples what is meant by moral absolutism. [25] Moral absolutism is the ethical belief that there are absolute standards against which morality can be judged, and that actions are intrinsically right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act, or the culture, time or place. Moral absolutists believe that there is a universal set of absolutes which are true for all time, in all place and all situations, and every person has an obligation to follow these absolutes. Moral…

end result may be different given individual circumstances, every action is meant to achieve good. The last aspect of virtue ethics involves happiness. For Aristotle, happiness is linked closely to good. Aristotle referred to the ultimate good as “eudaimonia,” which is also understood as happiness (CITE). Aristotle believed that “genuine happiness lies in action that leads to virtue,” and as such happiness is achieved when individuals are aiming at good through the use of virtuous action…

1. Introduction The Challenger Disaster was a complex case because it involved multiple parties. The goal is not to determine whether the decision to launch the Challenger was right or wrong, but whether if it was ethical of them to decide to launch the shuttle at that point in time based what they knew about the conditions pertaining to the launch. In order to analyze this, I will be using the virtue theory. However, before the analysis can be done, an understanding of the case and virtue…

of how one should live, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard recognized a crisis in the (then) modern conception of selfhood. Similar to the way in which the Greeks speculated about the “good life” (E.g. the way Aristotle associated his idea of eudaimonia with the attainment of the highest form of human rationality), a collective desire for certainty and objective truth amongst his contemporaries seemed to be threatening individual being. He saw, in the efforts of the German philosopher Hegel…

Week 8 Paper Anita H. Bailey 9/7/2014 COUN5214- Theories of Personalities Dr. Raina Krell Chris Gardner puts all of his savings into bone-density scanners, it was twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. This dream breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda, who leaves him and moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. Their son Christopher stays with Chris because he and his wife both know that he…

In recent years, people have become unconsciously addicted to consumerism as a pursuit of happiness; Something we all look for as a “goal” in life but we are mistakenly taking the wrong journeys towards achieving it. Our pursuit of happiness has become an ongoing process of having more and more, having the latest trends, and constantly “updating” our lifestyle to discard the old and always live with the new. This has been apparent for some people for quite a long time, but nothing has been done…

Virtue is the habit of choosing the mean between the extremes of excess and deficiency with regard to some action or emotion. Most importantly, virtue brings upon friendship since virtue is the parent and preserver of friendship and without virtue, friendship cannot exist at all. Aristotle’s aristotelian view on friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics Books 8 & 9 contrasts and compares with Cicero’s eclectic view on friendship in De Amicitia in numerous ways. Aristotle defines friendship as two…