Nicomachean Ethics

The Essence of Evil(New title Needed) In both Phaedo and Nicomachean Ethics, philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, respectively, are concerned with the concept of pleasure and how pleasure ultimately affects their end goals. While Plato is more interested in the negative aspects pleasure can bring into life, Aristotle writes both about the favorable and unfavorable facets of pleasure. To begin my argument, I will first explain Plato’s account of what he deems “the greatest and worst of all evils”…

with being a virtuous person. Aristotle believed that there is an ultimate end or good to everything. He uses the arts as an example and explains how the ultimate end to medicine is to create health and that of strategy is to create victory (Nicomachean Ethics 941). There might be certain benefits from medicine,…

others are naturally useful and cooperative as instruments.” (Nicomachean Ethics 1099b28-29). He further explains that “having friends seems to be the greatest external good” (Nicomachean Ethics 9.9.1169b10-11). Friendship can be used to achieve this external good for it is deemed a virtuous action which is considered necessary for achieving the desired happiness that Aristotle speaks of throughout the all the books of the Nicomachean Ethics because “The solitary person’s life is hard, since it…

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics he searches for what is good for man. How every single thing we do is aimed to be virtuous. The requirements for virtuosity are that the virtues must be active; they must be voluntary, meaning it’s by choice, and virtuosity cannot be prescribed. When virtue is an established characteristic, those virtues become enjoyable leading to The Good Life. We aim to be virtuous because our goal is to live The Good Life. The Good Life is to achieve happiness,…

In Nicomachean Ethics 1097b22–1098a18, Aristotle advances an argument for what the human good is, which comes to be known as the Function Argument. There are a lot of discussions in secondary literature of the Function Argument, but (well, maybe not) surprisingly, scholars disagree significantly on what the Function Argument really is (a.k.a. what the premises and conclusion are), particularly because the so compact Argument is unpacked in a rather rapid manner, and involves potentially…

The ancient Greeks, were a society based on honor and virtue. Great philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle still have a huge significance today in society. They argued that the best life for humans beings is a life devoted to “virtue”, but just how much of that is true and how is that reflected today in our society? Plato, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle thought that what is morally good is whatever promotes “virtue” which is a certain health, beauty and good condition in the soul…

Thought in a school, while tending to and analyzing ideas.The word satisfaction in the Ethics is a clarification of the Greek expression eudaimonia, which passes on characters of achievement and satisfaction. For Aristotle, this satisfaction is our most noteworthy objective. By the by, Aristotle does not express that we ought to go for happiness, yet rather that we do go for bliss. His objective in the Ethics is not to let us know that we should live glad, profitable lives, however to let us…

Aristotle’s view of happiness is much different than the view of the average persons. There are certain things about happiness that most people would be in agreement with. In this paper, I will use the life of a well-known public figure and describe in what ways I believe that his life is similar and different to the views of Aristotle in terms of achieving happiness. Aristotle’s views of happiness will allow me to look at the life of this well-known public figure and understand why this life,…

1). Aristotle believes that the highest good for humans is happiness. He believes that all of our actions should lead up to the ultimate end goal of happiness. Aristotle says that most humans,”identify the good, or happiness with pleasure”(p. 50). However, in order to achieve happiness we must pursue happiness rather than pleasures and we must think rationally by using our virtues. According to Aristotle, our unique human function is to be rational beings. As humans we must make rational…

In Nisccomachean Ethics Book VII, Aristotle argues that there are three types of friendships; that being, utility, pleasure and goodness. Goodness, encompasses both utility and pleasure and only exists when both people involved admire each other’s goodness over a long period of time; this sort of friendship is very rare. According to Aristotle friendship is either “a virtue or implies virtue,” if there is something loveable in a person, “for not everything seems to be loved but only the lovable…