Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... • Moral excellence—a moral virtue— consists in a mean state. • “By virtue I mean virtue of character… it is concerned with feelings and actions….” (Aristotle, 337 BCE) • “Virtue, then, is a mean, in so far as it aims at what is intermediate.” (Aristotle, 337 BCE) ...
... • Moral excellence—a moral virtue— consists in a mean state. • “By virtue I mean virtue of character… it is concerned with feelings and actions….” (Aristotle, 337 BCE) • “Virtue, then, is a mean, in so far as it aims at what is intermediate.” (Aristotle, 337 BCE) ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... cultivation of voluntary virtue or habituation of virtuous actions? And 3) what is the relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understan ...
... cultivation of voluntary virtue or habituation of virtuous actions? And 3) what is the relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understan ...
Pragma-dialectics fallacies of relevance - UvA-DARE
... the Cooperative Principal is too general. We will see below that a clarification of the maxim of relation needs to resolve some important questions about the nature of relevance; these clarifications, obviously, must be in accordance with the Cooperation Principle. It is not a surprise, then, if the ...
... the Cooperative Principal is too general. We will see below that a clarification of the maxim of relation needs to resolve some important questions about the nature of relevance; these clarifications, obviously, must be in accordance with the Cooperation Principle. It is not a surprise, then, if the ...
Rhetoric
... about this subject by being honest. Mairs admits she is uncertain about her own motives and shows she understands the discomfort others’ have with this subject. ...
... about this subject by being honest. Mairs admits she is uncertain about her own motives and shows she understands the discomfort others’ have with this subject. ...
Happiness
... Aristotle – those characteristics that aid and perfect our ability to think, contemplate, and reflect – are not virtues, said Augustine. Only those characteristics that aid and perfect our ability to love God, ourselves, and our neighbor (faith, hope, and love) are virtues. ...
... Aristotle – those characteristics that aid and perfect our ability to think, contemplate, and reflect – are not virtues, said Augustine. Only those characteristics that aid and perfect our ability to love God, ourselves, and our neighbor (faith, hope, and love) are virtues. ...
Virtue Ethics show
... calls the Supreme Good to which we aim - EUDAIMONIA (‘Happiness’) • He is concerned with goodness as HAPPINESS and the type of lifestyle that will lead to achieving happiness. • Eudaimonia is crudely translated as ‘happiness’; a later interpretation is ‘flourishing’ - being successful. • This diffic ...
... calls the Supreme Good to which we aim - EUDAIMONIA (‘Happiness’) • He is concerned with goodness as HAPPINESS and the type of lifestyle that will lead to achieving happiness. • Eudaimonia is crudely translated as ‘happiness’; a later interpretation is ‘flourishing’ - being successful. • This diffic ...
Aristotle`s Account of the Virtue of Courage in
... further restricts temperance to pleasures of touch (1118al6-27). Similarly, Aristotle not only uses the doctrine of disjoint spheres to eliminate honesty and dishonesty with respect to agreements from the sphere of truthfulness (1127a33-bl), he also restricts truthfulness to things which bring exter ...
... further restricts temperance to pleasures of touch (1118al6-27). Similarly, Aristotle not only uses the doctrine of disjoint spheres to eliminate honesty and dishonesty with respect to agreements from the sphere of truthfulness (1127a33-bl), he also restricts truthfulness to things which bring exter ...
Ian Horkan ERH-207W Mr. Morgan Word Count: 1641 The Injustice
... where actions are right when they produce happiness, wrong when they promote the reverse of happiness (Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter 2). Based upon Platonic philosophy, there are several reasons why utilitarianism is incompatible with justice. These reasons center primarily on Plato’s Theory of the ...
... where actions are right when they produce happiness, wrong when they promote the reverse of happiness (Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter 2). Based upon Platonic philosophy, there are several reasons why utilitarianism is incompatible with justice. These reasons center primarily on Plato’s Theory of the ...
Aristotle`s Syllogistic and Core Logic
... Definition 2.1 : ϕ is valid if and only if every interpretation of the non-logical vocabulary (in the sentences involved) that makes every sentence in true makes ϕ true also. One can read the colon in a sequent : ϕ as the word ‘so’, or ‘therefore’, or ‘ergo’. In doing so, however, one must bea ...
... Definition 2.1 : ϕ is valid if and only if every interpretation of the non-logical vocabulary (in the sentences involved) that makes every sentence in true makes ϕ true also. One can read the colon in a sequent : ϕ as the word ‘so’, or ‘therefore’, or ‘ergo’. In doing so, however, one must bea ...
this PDF file - Lexicon Philosophicum
... what Aristotle previously demonstrated. As is known, Aristotle in Metaphysics Γ 4-6 proves by refutation the validity of the principle of noncontradiction. Alexander refers to the meaning of this principle with the expression “it is not possible for the contraries to simultaneously exist”. In this w ...
... what Aristotle previously demonstrated. As is known, Aristotle in Metaphysics Γ 4-6 proves by refutation the validity of the principle of noncontradiction. Alexander refers to the meaning of this principle with the expression “it is not possible for the contraries to simultaneously exist”. In this w ...
aristotle`s poetics - U
... (ethos), and 1 noted earlier that at SOa 2f. Aristotle indicates a link between character and the success or failure in action which the action of a play portrays. If this link were straightforwardly causal, however, we wouid be Ieft with the necessary entailment of happiness in virtue which Plato c ...
... (ethos), and 1 noted earlier that at SOa 2f. Aristotle indicates a link between character and the success or failure in action which the action of a play portrays. If this link were straightforwardly causal, however, we wouid be Ieft with the necessary entailment of happiness in virtue which Plato c ...
12 Substances
... was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than substance are predicated of substance, and substance is predicated of matter,” 1029a23–4) it certainly has a prima facie claim, in the context of a hylomorphic analysis that ...
... was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than substance are predicated of substance, and substance is predicated of matter,” 1029a23–4) it certainly has a prima facie claim, in the context of a hylomorphic analysis that ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... explanatory scheme that Aristotle defends in his more theoretical reflections on the study of nature. These reflections (especially in the Physics and in Generation and Corruption) develop an account of nature, form, matter, cause and change that expresses Aristotle’s views about the understanding a ...
... explanatory scheme that Aristotle defends in his more theoretical reflections on the study of nature. These reflections (especially in the Physics and in Generation and Corruption) develop an account of nature, form, matter, cause and change that expresses Aristotle’s views about the understanding a ...
Gatta_Santina_2015_research paper
... as it did thousands of years ago. In the time of Aristotle, such letters written in Greek and circulating as written material in ancient Greece were considered valuable knowledge, which was special. Aristotle’s ethics is unclear on many counts. One idea is that doing things well need not require the ...
... as it did thousands of years ago. In the time of Aristotle, such letters written in Greek and circulating as written material in ancient Greece were considered valuable knowledge, which was special. Aristotle’s ethics is unclear on many counts. One idea is that doing things well need not require the ...
Virtue Ethics
... must look at the upbringing, education and behaviour of people on a day-to-day basis. ...
... must look at the upbringing, education and behaviour of people on a day-to-day basis. ...
the tension between aristotle_s theories
... similes and metaphors, all used to explain the most difficult doctrinal points33: the unity of body and soul is conceived as the unity of a circle and its tangent at a point34, and as the unity of a wax tablet and the image stamped upon it35. Concerning the body's instrumental relationship to the so ...
... similes and metaphors, all used to explain the most difficult doctrinal points33: the unity of body and soul is conceived as the unity of a circle and its tangent at a point34, and as the unity of a wax tablet and the image stamped upon it35. Concerning the body's instrumental relationship to the so ...
Aristotle`s Theory of the Assertoric Syllogism
... its subaltern AoC would follow), nor can AaC follow (or its subaltern AiC would too). Thus, Aristotle takes syllogistic validity to be formal. In fact, he does more than this. Many authors have been puzzled to determine what is the actual basis of syllogistic validity. It might appear that all valid ...
... its subaltern AoC would follow), nor can AaC follow (or its subaltern AiC would too). Thus, Aristotle takes syllogistic validity to be formal. In fact, he does more than this. Many authors have been puzzled to determine what is the actual basis of syllogistic validity. It might appear that all valid ...
Presentation
... Happiness or well-being, human fulfillment can only be found in developing that which is our purpose, our telos. Happiness or well-being therefore must involve the blossoming and realization of our rationality, our ability to think, contemplate and reflect. To find happiness or well-being by develop ...
... Happiness or well-being, human fulfillment can only be found in developing that which is our purpose, our telos. Happiness or well-being therefore must involve the blossoming and realization of our rationality, our ability to think, contemplate and reflect. To find happiness or well-being by develop ...
A discussion of Aristotle`s De Anima
... and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a set). We probably wan ...
... and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a set). We probably wan ...
Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... considers animals and children to be capable of voluntary action (though not of choice and deliberation, or virtue), so they would also be responsible for what they voluntarily do. Or does Aristotle mean merely that voluntariness is one necessary condition for responsibility? Part of the problem ind ...
... considers animals and children to be capable of voluntary action (though not of choice and deliberation, or virtue), so they would also be responsible for what they voluntarily do. Or does Aristotle mean merely that voluntariness is one necessary condition for responsibility? Part of the problem ind ...
Doing Things Right: Ethics and Decision Making in Human
... The outcome of ethical practice is the gradual transformation of an impersonal workplace into a viable community of people... ...who respect and recognize in one another the virtues that make being human and contributing to a cooperative endeavor meaningful. ...
... The outcome of ethical practice is the gradual transformation of an impersonal workplace into a viable community of people... ...who respect and recognize in one another the virtues that make being human and contributing to a cooperative endeavor meaningful. ...
File
... ‘daimon’ meaning ‘spirit (within)’. This concept of a good inner spirit (or feeling of wellbeing) is translated as ‘happiness’. The ideal contains an element of deserved or justified happiness. The only way to achieve eudaimonia is to truly deserve it and to have worked tirelessly by developing virt ...
... ‘daimon’ meaning ‘spirit (within)’. This concept of a good inner spirit (or feeling of wellbeing) is translated as ‘happiness’. The ideal contains an element of deserved or justified happiness. The only way to achieve eudaimonia is to truly deserve it and to have worked tirelessly by developing virt ...
Substantive Syllogisms - Scholarship at UWindsor
... this paper, I want to focus on the use that Thomas Aquinas makes of the syllogism to explore and develop Aristotle's ideas about a doctrine found in a familiar passage from the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics. "If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (e ...
... this paper, I want to focus on the use that Thomas Aquinas makes of the syllogism to explore and develop Aristotle's ideas about a doctrine found in a familiar passage from the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics. "If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (e ...
Syllogism - University of Windsor
... this paper, I want to focus on the use that Thomas Aquinas makes of the syllogism to explore and develop Aristotle's ideas about a doctrine found in a familiar passage from the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics. "If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (e ...
... this paper, I want to focus on the use that Thomas Aquinas makes of the syllogism to explore and develop Aristotle's ideas about a doctrine found in a familiar passage from the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics. "If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (e ...
Ethical theorists: A comparison of main ideas
... happiness within community To be happy is to live well and to do well Human activity aims at achieving the good Since the highest capacity of humans is to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
... happiness within community To be happy is to live well and to do well Human activity aims at achieving the good Since the highest capacity of humans is to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...