Nicomachean Ethics

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    Aristotle extensively examines the stability of the three types of friendship in Nicomachean Ethics. “Friendship has three species, corresponding to the three objects of love. For each of love has a corresponding type of mutual loving, combined with awareness of it” (Aristotle, 121). The first two types of friendship, utility and pleasure, are relatively fragile. These types of friendships are only good for as long as our wants and desires remain the same. Once they change it affects what we find useful or pleasurable leaving the friendship prone to dissolution. For instance, a person visits the same hair salon every month. However, a newer and better hair salon has opened offering services for a more affordable price. The friendship built…

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    Name Prof Course Date Title or Subject of Essay In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle values friendship so highly that he argues friendship replaces justice. Friendship, he argues, is necessary for life, since no one would choose to live without friends (Aristotle, cite). Aristotle believes that there are three different kinds of friendship: the friendship of utility, of pleasure, and of virtue. The virtuous friendship is the highest form of friendship and one of the greatest attainments one can…

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    In Aristotle’s book The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines εὐδαιμονία (eudaimonia) as the supreme good for humanity. When you translate eudaimonia it means happiness or flourishing. Aristotle defines happiness as the life of rational activity in accordance with virtue. People often think that happiness is a state of mind, but for Aristotle, happiness is like a goal or the final end that binds together the entireness of one’s life, “one swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine…

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    Ethics Paper #1 Among the countless number of different philosophies regarding human happiness that have been proposed, Aristotle's philosophy concerning human happiness is perhaps one of (if not) the most pervasive, well-known, and controversial philosophies (pertaining to human happiness) to date. Despite having been around for more than a couple of millennia, Aristotle's philosophy on human happiness still relevant (and highly debated) to this day. Aristotle reveals his philosophy on human…

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    Basically, both men viewed morality from the point where the end does not necessarily affect the means. What is more, both believed in logical approach to determining what is right and morally acceptable. Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics still remain one of the most relevant works in the history of philosophy. Up to date, his ethics is used as a common reference in solving moral problems and dilemmas. In his work, the main objective of Aristotle was to discover the sole purpose of living.…

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    The concept of moderation and its importance throughout Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics and Thomas Aquinas’ The Virtues, is heavily contrasted with the intensity displayed within Baudelaire 's poem Get Drunk, and the documentary Amy. Within these four works, it is clear that not only do the concepts of intensity and moderation contradict, but the varying methods and effects of the two within each group contradict as well. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics the idea of moderation is portrayed…

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    Aristotle decided to take on the subject of the good in his Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle argues that every person must make a choice to act good. Within his ideas of the good it is imperative that men take responsibility for their own actions and that they understand what their own intentions are doing in relation to the good. However, there are some oppositions that believe this is not the case. They would argue that men have no control over how something appears to them or how they perceive…

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    Bertrand Russell once stated that, “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle creates the concept of a good life that humans should try to acquire. But Aristotle’s concept of a good life is unattainable by humans. He expresses that the ultimate human goal is happiness, but complete happiness is unattainable. He then describes the pivotal role of virtue in the concept of happiness and without virtue one cannot obtain happiness. …

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    Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics The human experience of the Nicomachean Ethics is about finding happiness. The difference between Aristotle’s versions of happiness and what happiness is viewed like today is large. It is common for people in today’s society to think happiness is pleasure. Aristotle and the Athenians viewed happiness as a way of life and one can determine if they have had a happy life by a sum of all his days not just one day. Aristotle uses the example at one point “For one swallow…

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    In the first reading by Jonathan Lear he suggests the notion that people now are losing their confidence in religious beliefs explaining the ‘why’ and moral outlook, so he suggests to look back at what Aristotle had said. When he begins to bring up the various concepts Aristotle discusses in Nicomachean Ethics he explains, that Aristotle’s goal was, “to give one a reflective understanding of how one can achieve happiness by living an ethical life within society” (154). I think this is an…

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