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    Politics, Aristotle lays out two major tenets of a true, healthy, democratic regime. The first is that members of a healthy polity must understand being ruled and then ruling in turn. Within this overarching assumption there is the idea that each citizen should have an equal share, as well as the belief that the poor have more authority as they are a larger population in the polity. The second is that each member of a healthy democracy, polity, should have the ability to live as one wants.…

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    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…

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    philosophers have contributed to this particular branch of thought. However our understanding of metaphysics would be less significant without the strong foundation of work by ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. One of the most important pieces of work to touch Western Society was Plato’s Theory of Forms. Plato’s work attempts to answer questions about reality and the world we live in. Moreover his writing has received both scrutiny and praise. This writing will act as an…

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    Today’s unpredictable and often toxic culture in American politics would represent major shortcomings in the eyes of Plato and Aristotle, who championed wisdom, moderation, and courage as keys to forming functional societies. Serious governmental flaws entrenched within the United States’ political system oppose Plato’s vision for a just society. Speaking of Plato’s use of dialectics to define wisdom, Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society explains, “Socrates distinguished…

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    and Nichomachean Ethics, St. Perpetua and Aristotle promote actions and lifestyles geared toward the same destination, in spite of their apparent contradictions. While Aristotle advocates for a principled obedience to a core of virtues and Perpetua stresses the definite singular importance of giving one’s life to God, both authors approach a common definition of appropriate behavior involving courageous resolve in pursuit of the highest happiness. Aristotle elaborates his viewpoint with regards…

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    conversation between Socrates, Thrasymachus, and other ancient Greeks, Thrasymachus imposes an opinion of justice being the advantage of the stronger onto his friends. There are many problems with this argument and Aristotle demonstrates this throughout books one to four in Politics. Aristotle believes that justice is not the advantage of the stronger because he believes in a representative government where everyone is free and equal. In his argument, Thrasymachus claims that justice is the…

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    Aristotle’s Teleology The world teleology has two parts: telos, meaning end or goal, and logos, meaning a reason. For Aristotle, this “teleological” view on nature played an important part in understanding why objects in nature behave a certain way or possess certain characteristics. In this essay, I will discuss the characteristics of Aristotle’s teleological view and its relevance to modern science and understanding. I will also argue that while his emphasis on the importance of function, or…

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    Unlike his mentor Plato, Aristotle believed that the essence of all beings is Substance. Substance is the first principle of all things, according to Aristotle (VII, 1). The philosopher defines substance as that which cannot be predicated, but that “of which all else is predicated” (VII, 3). Everything else, such as matter, qualities of the matter, and etc., proceed substance. And in order to come to these conclusions about the essence of the world, Aristotle uses the methods of scientific…

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    The three established theories of profound quality incorporate the Nicomachean Ethics perspective by Aristotle, the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant and the Utilitarianism Theory of ethical quality perspective by John Stuart Mill. Aristotle believed that a man's beliefs depended on their life in overall and not on Individual acts. At the end of the day, the combined gathering of activities over a lifetime would figure out whether a man was moral, good, honest or not. This was known as the…

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    Plato did not solve the problem of the ONE and MANY. Aristotle did so brilliantly. He held that the principles of being are POTENCY and ACT. These two states of being answer the problem of Change as well as that of the One and the Many. Potency and Act divide being in such a way that whatever is, is either pure Act (the ultimate Being, or God), or is composed of potency and act as its primary intrinsic principles (all other beings). For example, Wood has the qualities of wood, hard or soft, from…

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