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But the challenge here is that if we die, it seems that we cannot live in a manner that produces happiness. So are we to suggest that happiness cannot be obtained?

Yes I guess your point sounds logically conclusive. I think that in this sense he could have been closer to Epicure than to Stoic philosophers… What counts here is how do we act as we live.. What do you think? By the way I am sure you have heard of the theory of Golden Mean… Each virtue is in a perfect balance between the excess and the defect ….

So I guess happiness should be a sort of contemplative state of mind in perfect balance with Physis. Not too much nor too less.. Ok…yes, the golden mean, although that is more Plato than Aristotle, is it not? Particularly in reference to the virtue of temperance. Yet at the same time, can we speak of too much prudence or wisdom? Happiness may very well include a contemplative state of mind, but also flourishing of the body and material well being as well. I think it is the same with happiness.

Now about God…Aristotle speaks often of God. Okay , got your point at the end there are silver means maybe.. Not golden as gold is too pure to be virtuous!!! I think that you are right in that image of the archer you have provided.

Your point about the golden mean is also well taken because virtue is like a mean between extremes, such as courage as a mean between recklessness and cowardice. So perhaps we just mean two different senses.

Now, with God. This is probably due to his cultural situation. They all saw in some aspect of matter the first principle of everything that is. Aristotle rejects this. For him, the Prime Mover is clearly supernatural; it is not a natural principle of any kind.

Does it fit you … Or anyway… during the week as you wish!. Yet I have found that sometimes, this conclusion is somewhat circular? It seems as though Aristotle is saying that while happiness is the effect of living well, at the same time, happiness is living well virtue. So it sometimes seems unclear if happiness is virtue for Aristotle or whether happiness is an effect of virtue? Yes I know It is circular if it this what you are trying to highlight.

What intrigues me about this is that Aristotle puts the emphasis on a certain kind of life…yet man dies. Therefore, is it possible for him to obtain happiness given this condition?. But is it in fact a virtue, as in a habit? That part I am not so sure about. Aristotle identifies the virtues- prudence, courage, etc..

Just curious.. Are you familiar with Germain Grisez and John Finnis? What is interesting is that the British philosophers Peter Geach, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Philippa Foot bring British philosophy back to an anthropological vision of ethics, whereas Grisez and Finnis are critical of this, and take a more deontological approach? On the issue of Plato and Aristotle. That is a subject of much debate throughout history.

In general, the consensus is yes, even though their approaches were different. They also both agree that we can know absolute, universal truths. Where they disagree is in terms of how we come to know things. Now Aristotle protests against this in his Metaphysics. He argues that this kind of reasoning leads to all sorts of absurdities. Your Comment:.

Home Downloads Free Downloads Politics pdf. Read Online Download. Hot Politics by Aristotle by Aristotle. Great book, Politics pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The second premise, that there are human beings who lack the capacity to deliberate, might be true in some cases — perhaps those with severe brain damage or advanced dementia — but they are certainly not who Aristotle had in mind.

The third premise is similarly mistaken: Aristotle systematically misidentifies who lacks the capacity for deliberation. But Aristotle fails to see that this is not the inherent nature of enslaved people, but the result of slavery itself. Slavery was pervasive in both ancient Greek society and the antebellum American south.

Accordingly, privileged members of those societies were unable or unwilling to see the profound injustice of slavery. Perhaps that same tendency exists in us as well. However, it should be noted that reliable numbers are hard to come by in this case. The point of having a slave is not merely to have additional material belongings, but to enable one to act in certain ways, in this case, as a contemplative citizen.

Rather, he argues they are a kind of subcategory of human beings. The first is analogical:. Aristotle seems to think that it is a reliable generalization that when there are natural ruling parts and natural ruled parts, it is beneficial for both the whole and the parts to be in their proper relationship.

The second is a modified form of the function argument Aristotle makes in the Nicomachean Ethics I. In that argument, a good life for a human being is to be found in excellently performing the function distinctive to human beings. Aristotle argues that since reason is distinctive to human beings, a good human life is one in which someone reasons well throughout a complete life.

In the Politics , Aristotle argues that:. Although reasoning is distinctive to all human beings, Aristotle claims that natural slaves have reason only in some minimal sense. Accordingly, the distinctive way in which natural slaves function is not in deliberating for themselves but rather following the deliberations of others. Chang Source: Read the Docs 3. Books to Learn to Play the Piano for Children. Lind Source: Piano Song Download Exercises to Learn to Play the Piano.

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