Human good aristotle
Why does Aristotle need to explain why performing a human function well?
Hence Aristotle needs to explain why performing the human function well is supposed to be beneficially good for a human being, in the sense of something of value, not merely instrumentally good.
Does Aristotle require the highest good to be peculiar?
For Kraut, the answer amounts to whether Aristotle requires that the highest good be absolutely peculiar to humans, or whether he requires that it only be peculiar relative to some group. Kraut favours the latter answer.
Why does Aristotle think human contemplation is peculiar to humans?
This could allow Aristotle to suppose that human contemplation is peculiar to humans, while also allowing the gods to contemplate, because, despite their similarities, differences nonetheless exist between human and divine contemplation.
Why does Aristotle say a horse is a good horse?
This is because in EN II.6 Aristotle explicitly describes the function of horses, which importantly does include their use by humans: ‘the excellence of the horse makes a horse both good in itself and good at running and at carrying its rider and at awaiting the attack of the enemy’ (1106a19-21).
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unique to human beings, nonetheless claimed the existence of loftier and uniquely human pleasures not susceptible to Aristotle’s argument; loftier pleasures associated with the contemplation of God in the afterlife. Aristotle also assumed that eudaimonia must be an activity, not a state or disposition (hexis), like a virtue. This follows from ...
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the connection between being a good human and the human good. If the human function is a certain kind of life that humans live, the challenge is why living well is the good for human beings. I argue that, for Aristotle, to be a ‘good’ human just is what it means to live well as a human, in accordance with the specifically human life, so ...
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First, since Aristotle takes the human good to consist in “the realization of human excellence in the various forms of culture,” his theory is a form of “perfectionism.” Second, insofar as one deļ¬nes the human good as happiness, one’s theory is an instance of “eudaimonism.”3 And this second gloss sounds plausibly Aristotelian.4
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examine Aristotle’s substantive claims for a particular human good, while the last part will try and take stock of just what is essentialist and what pluralistic in Aristotelian functionalism. 1. The Minimally Essential (“Formal”) Stage of the Function Argument Aristotle does not differentiate between formal and substantive arguments in his
Aristotle on Divine and Human Contemplation
that Aristotle has the apparently paradoxical view that the human good is not the human good, but rather the divine good. To live well as human beings, we must transcend living as human beings at all. Whereas Ackrill’s view favors a reading of the function argument that makes NE 10. 7–8 a non sequitur, Nagel’s
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The study of the human good requires the study of the human soul; Aristotelian ethics requires Aristotelian psychology. Not too much psychology, Aristotle warns us, but enough for the purpose at hand (1102a23-6) - the. Ethics' purpose of defining the human good and explaining how it is achieved.
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