Nicomachean Ethics

One of the many subjects that Aristotle tackles in The Nicomachean Ethics is the concept and practice of friendship. Aristotle himself sets three requirements for friendship, as well as three separate categories for friendship, the categories being, utility based, pleasure based, and virtues based. While Aristotle does state that a virtue based friendship is the strongest, one could also put forth the argument that friendship only exists for the benefits of utility that come from friendship,…

In the world of ethics, there lies principles on which to live life by. Among these principles come the great philosophers that created them. Philosophers such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill. Along with their corresponding theories of Virtue, Nonconsequentialism, and Utilitarianism. These theories have such shaped the world ethics since creation and have continued to influence thinkers even today. Theories such as those mentioned are still being discusses and analyzed now.…

Throughout Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle describes ideal leadership. He outlines the character traits good leaders should possess and what those traits look like in a person. Aristotle argues that virtue is a median between two extremes, and the virtuous person will identify and act in accordance with the mean. Aristotle discuses many virtues and explains how they relate to being a good leader. One of these virtues is justice. Aristotle argues that justice is the foundation upon which all other…

He believes that we should act according to moral virtue which is “a trait of character, manifested in habitual action, that is good for anyone to have.” When approaching the lifeboat situation, Virtue Ethics are difficult to apply as it is argued it does not act normally like an approach to ethical dilemmas like Kantianism or Utilitarianism. In fact, it does not fit squarely into pegs that are thought experiments and this lifeboat situation is no different…

whilst [you] live [you] live happily, but it is necessary that so long as [you] live [you] should live honourably” (Kant). Are you on board to start living this type of life? Alternatively, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher wrote a book called the Nicomachean Ethics in which…

brief conversation with an acquaintance or an encounter with a person you just met can trigger a so-called “friendship” to arise almost immediately. However Aristotle, an early Greek philosopher whose principles are outlined in his book The Nicomachean Ethics and have lingered until the present, had much narrower conditions regarding how legitimate friendships develop. Aristotle was a firm believer that not just anyone can be a genuine friend and that not every relationship qualified to be a…

them are derived from the human soul. He also proposes that the human soul contains a humans passions and appetite, this makes up the persons character. The Nicomachean Ethics contains a total of ten books, which range from moral virtue to friendship. In the tenth and final book Aristotle takes a close look into pleasure and how it relates to ethics. He also looks into the issue of speculative wisdom. Aristotle deems speculative wisdom to be the highest virtue of all as listed in his book. He…

My fiancé and I have plan go to Boston to work, but my parents do not want to go with our. I have trouble in making decision that either going to Boston with my fiancé or living at Austin with my parents. Through our the 10th book of The Nicomachean Ethics, I could recognize something and hope that it can help me to make decision. 1. According to Aristotle, extreme happiness depends on other factors like: health, property...etc(Aristotle). Beside the happiness that we all want, the health and…

In the the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle seeks to find the highest good of all human beings. In the process of deciding that the highest good is happiness, Aristotle ends up discarding certain entities, such as pleasure and honor, of being candidates for the highest good. In Aristotle’s discussion of the goods we seek, he rather quickly disregards pleasure as a possible highest good. In Bk. 1. Chap. 5, Aristotle even states that a person who has chosen a life dependent on…

Human beings rely on the satisfaction of others. Human beings have been gifted with reason, from this they think about their actions and how that might affect others. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle examines the role that friendship has in life. His analyzation leads to concepts of human beings not being able to survive without friends and the fact that there is a friend for every person. Humans are beings that want love and affection from another person; the first person that a…