Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he states that the highest good is happiness. I believe that he is right because happiness the underlying reason of why we live life. However, I disagree with Aristotle on what is happiness and how to achieve it. Instead of living a virtuous life, happiness, to me, means living a comfortable life filled with pleasure and love. I believe that happiness is the highest good because everything we do in life is in the pursuit of it. Like Aristotle states in…

 Aristotle wrote Nicomachean Ethics, and coined the word ethics. Fir him, ethics was about developing a virtuous character which may led to eudaimonia, or in other words true happiness.  Sometimes we may not feel like forgiving someone, yet we have to. Maybe, our feeling of love isn’t strong for our spouse even though we experience love and forgiveness. We may experience them, and those behaviors turn into a habit.  Aristotle believed that doing the right thing could lead to virtue habits.…

In the third book of his publication, “The Nicomachean Ethics”, the philosopher Aristotle elaborates on the arguments which he has presented concerning moral virtues, and invokes the concepts of voluntary and involuntary actions, choice, and responsibility to support his claims. The first segment within Book III of The Nicomachean Ethics concentrates on the conditions required for a person to either praise or blame another individual with regards to the actions that the other party has…

lot of people that they are close to and consider them friends. Many of these friends to Aristotle are not real or at least do not have good intensions they just benefit from the friendship and this happens both way in the friendship. In “The Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle explains three types of friendships that occurring to him exist. He also says what type of people should be friend based on the category that they go in to. In the beginning Aristotle’s starts by giving a definition of…

The nature of the universe in the article Nicomachean Ethics is virtue where he states that virtue is a state of being. Aristotle talks about happiness, and he emphasizes that happiness is important because it reflects fulfill and success in our lives on what we think we are doing right in the world. He mentions that we all identify differently on different things such as happiness because that depends on our individual emotional state. Also, he mentions that we have two parts of our soul one…

Kenny McAvoy Professor Watson Philosophy paper 1 14 September 2016 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is an account on how man can live a complete life, in order to achieve happiness. Aristotle argues happiness is derived from human excellence and in Nicomachean Ethics he provides a guideline for how man can achieve such excellence. Aristotle writes in his work, “Now each function is completed well by being completed in accord with the virtue proper [to that kind of thing]. And so human good…

Collin Laguzza PL215-TAY Paper A 10/8/2015 Aristotle attempts to identify what the greatest good for mankind truly is in his Nicomachean Ethics. To do so, Aristotle asks himself how we can live our lives while giving meaning at the same time. He directs the answer by looking at an end, more so, a purposeful life with a goal. For instance, the purpose of medication is to seek good health. It is the end result that matters most. So what exactly is this goal that is an end in itself? Happiness is…

Aristotle is a very important philosopher which many other philosophers learn from. I too would use Aristotle’s teachings as the bases for my writing if I were a philosopher. The teaching that interests me the most is from his book of “Nicomachean Ethics”. In book 1 of this selection Aristotle says that all actions seek to do some good, which would lead to the highest good of happiness. He does not say that the actions must result in good but the activity of the action is good. In other words,…

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle primarily defines happiness as being the ultimate end in one’s life through the accordance of complete virtue. This means that happiness can only be achieved at the end of one’s life because happiness is not a temporary state, but a goal. I suggest that happiness can be achieved sooner than this. Aristotle describes the three types goods which are divided by the external, the soul and the body (Nicomachean Ethics 1098 b13). Our actions is what the…

The nature of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, evaluates that all human action is a means towards pursuing an ultimate good, known as happiness. Happiness is deemed the ultimate ends of pursuing the good. I will explain how Aristotle’s argument for the the aims of human activity and the pursuit of human nature relates to the science of politics. Aristotle examines that not all actions are direct leads towards happiness, but are subordinate ends. An example given would be that “bridle making and…