... era. Plato, who himself was a pupil of the legendary Socrates, was around 61 years old at the time, and quickly realized that Aristotle was his star pupil. Known as "the mind" of the Academy, Aristotle was deeply influenced by Plato's persona and ethics, but never did he let his admiration get in the way of his personal stands on politics and ethics, and vise versa. Just as Plato ... was studied under the wing of Socrates and later established ... his own philosophy, Aristotle followed suit. The two differed on political and ethical views, although both had similar basis for their opin...

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... be just--laws passed by human beings must not contradict divine law." "Ethics and politics. For Aristotle, ethics and politics both study practical knowledge, that is, knowledge that enables people to act properly and live happily. Aristotle's works on this subject include the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics." "Aristotle argued that the goal of human beings is happiness, and that we achieve happiness when we fulfill our ... function. Therefore, it is necessary to determine what our function is. The function of a thing is what it alone can do, or what ... it can do best. For example...

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... that we can look on how people felt about living their lives is by the text that was written for us to read. There are three good books that talk about living a good life. These books are The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, St. Augustine Confessions, and The Politics by Aristotle. The Canterbury Tales was a book that was written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book had stories ... by many travelers that Chaucer went on a trip with. The Bath of Wife shows the women perspective on how life should be. She was considered to be ... the most outspoken of the travelers. The Wife of Bath has b...

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... human action results in an end in that one considers good. The highest ends, in which all humans aim for their own sake, are considered the final good. The study of the final good is part of political science, due to the fact that politics is part of securing the highest ends for human life. Happiness is the final good because one chooses happiness as a sufficient end itself ... . Being intelligent and having virtue are not just good themselves, but good because it is what makes man happy. The final good is ... may think they can go more. There is no final end to lifting because one kee...

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... thing to do. One must allow oneself to seem like a saint, but do what will bring opulence. Aristotle wrote about how the end will justify the means. Machiavelli said that no matter what means a prince uses in "the task of conquering, and maintaining his state; his methods will always be judged honorable and will be universally praised."" (pg 58) This statement stays true only ... and should be. Ideally we could live in one of those utopian societies that so many philosophers and theologically grounded thinkers wrote about. But Machiavelli demands that we think about politics in a realis...

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... and scientist was a student of Plato and followed his Socrates' Philosophical tradition. Nevertheless, Aristotle's emphasis was quite different from Plato's. Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) a Greek philosopher and scientist shared with Plato the distinction of being the most famous of the ancient philosophers. Nevertheless, Aristotle's emphasis was quite different from Plato's. He was versed in a broad range of subjects ... the conduct of scientific investigations. Aristotle is also credited with the use of logic as a method for conducting research. He devised the idea of dividing areas of stud...

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... . In that lies Socrates's fatal oversight. He dealt with reason and assumed people were reasonable; however, reason rarely guides politics. The mockery of his teaching, as portrayed in the allegories of the day, wasn't aimed at embarrassing him. The jury pool was being tainted. Socrates had the Sophists trying their hardest to keep him silent, he had playwrights casting a gloomy shadow over his reputation, and every ... 14). He never professed to being a teacher, but he was the only person in the world that had ever viewed a good life as the abandonment of material possessions and the ye...

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