Nicomachean Ethics

According to Aristotle in his The Nicomachean Ethics, there are several different types of friendships, each with their own qualities, motives, and products. Aristotle defines the different types of friendships into three categories: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure, and friendships of the good. Within each of these particular groupings of friendship, the interpersonal relationships associated bring forth positive effects to both an individual and a community. Friendship is not…

action and decision seems to seeks some good, that is why some people were right to describe the good as what everything seeks. But the ends that are sought appear to differ; some are activities, and others are products apart from the activities (Nicomachean Ethics, 1).” The goods that are sought out are the ends. Aristotle believed that an end was more complete if it was pursued for the sake of itself rather than for the sake of something else. He believed that happiness was the highest good…

Aristotle Ethics Paper Through Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle analyzes different values present in Greek society and how to seek goodness. Specifically, Aristotle advocated for specific virtues in order for individuals to attain complete happiness, eudemonia, by pursuing virtues like wisdom and courage. While pursuing virtues of thought and character, habituation and practical wisdom are important to acquire virtues to better society. Aristotle makes a stark difference between virtues and…

Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, focuses on the good in life and how one can achieve it. The majority believe that things such as pleasure, wealth, and honor are considered happiness. However, the few cultivated people, the virtuous, understand that happiness comes from friendship, politics, and virtue. The virtuous who are after good can find it in happiness and politics; they also understand how these can work together to produce a prosperous life. The words and examples that…

measures against him or her because they most likely have undermined her campaign already. After hearing everything that has occurred or will occur during the campaign, I proceeded to give her advice and I defended myself by utilizing my book Nicomachean Ethics. An ethical and virtuous campaign can only survive if the candidate were to disregard everything that has been set in motion by her campaign director thus far. A virtuous campaign would not intentionally make an opponent look bad.…

Aristotle’s book, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is commenced with perhaps the utmost important segment of his novel: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as choice, is held to aim at some good” (Nic. Ethics, 1094a1-2). Thereafter, it becomes evident that the ‘good’ that Aristotle is referring to is not synonymous with the word “good’s” contemporarily conventional definition; instead, Aristotle’s use of ‘good’ seems to have an unreachable, yet vastly desirable…

I asked my family what they thought the word pleasure meant, I received several answers all of which connected pleasure to happiness or joy, but that’s not what pleasure truly is; not to Aristotle at least. The definition to pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics is “Pleasure together with pain, a crucial determinant of human action and hence crucial to Aristotle’s account of moral virtue and vice. The noun supplies the root of the English term hedonism, that is, the philosophic doctrine according…

In Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle has an inner debate over this question creating many theories, but he ultimately comes to the conclusion that Eudaimonia is a goal that all humans should aim for. The best way to achieve this goal is through the characters of virtue. Eudaimonia is thought to mean happiness, but in this case it means to thrive or to flourish and it can be accomplished when a person attains happiness or success in all aspects of their life. During Aristotle’s lifetime all people are…

Most individuals can intuitively understand the concept of a friend or being in a friendship, however few can claim to have exhausted the topic to the extent Aristotle has in his Nicomachean Ethics. In his work, Aristotle attempts to outline what steps a person has to take in order to live a good and prosperous life. One topic that is pivotal in this discussion are the fundamentals of friendship. In order to demonstrate the significance, the various types of friendships, the the individuals that…

What does Aristotle define as virtue in N icomachean Ethics? It is stated in the text that “ Virtue, then is a state that decides, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined by reference to reason...,”1 (NE II.6 §15) to properly understand this quote and what Aristotle means by it, we must also understand that Aristotle distinguishes between two different forms of virtue. Said virtues are virtues of Character and virtues of Thought. Firstly, virtues of Character are “those…