Aristotle and the good
[DOC File]Aristotle (V5023) - University of Sussex
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c. can bring into good condition the thing of which it is an excellence and makes the work of that thing done badly. d. both brings into good condition the thing of which it is an excellence and makes the work of that thing done well. e. two of the above. 47. According to Aristotle the virtue of man
Aristotle’s Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
GOOD (agathos): For Aristotle, the ultimate end, that which is “good” for each human being, is happiness. A good is the result of an action, what we seek in doing something. Everything we do is for the sake of some good. Some things are “good in themselves,” for example, happiness. We do not seek happiness in order to get wealth.
[DOC File]NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, BOOK I
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But Aristotle argues that for the life of the human being the ultimate object is the good life or eudaemonia – loosely translated as Happiness, as we saw with Plato. Everything we choose in life – career, spouse, hobby, where we live, etc., is chosen because we think it will make us happy.
[DOC File]Aristotle’s Politics
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In placing so much importance on our vision of the good, Aristotle clearly shows the influence of Plato on his thought. In the remaining chapters of Book III, Aristotle gives a fuller discussion than in Book II of the two most important moral virtues, courage and self-control (that is, temperance, moderation in the pursuit of sensual desires).
[DOC File]Aristotle Multiple Choice
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Aristotle tells us that some in the Academy, perhaps including Plato himself, identified this One with the Good (Met. xiv.4). Later interpreters, putting these various fragments together, concluded that the One of the unwritten doctrines, the One of the Parmenides, and the Good of …
[DOC File]The Concept of the Divine Energies
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Aristotle’s concept of an ‘Athenian gentleman’ and the idea that only the rich can be completely virtuous may now seem out of place, and ‘friendship’ seems an unusual virtue. Jane Austen said ‘agreeableness’ was not a real virtue, and Aristotle claimed military courage was an apparent virtue.
[DOC File]Aristotle’s Ethics
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The set text for this course is A New Aristotle Reader, ed. J. Ackrill. Students must acquire a copy of this work, which contains all the primary texts we shall be studying. J. Lear’s Aristotle: The Desire to Understand is a good general work on Aristotle, which will serve as useful preliminary reading. (Chapter 3 can be omitted.)
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