... do not do. "Of the [part of the soul] that has reason. One [part] of it has reason as obeying reason; the other has it as itself having reason and thinking" (1098a3-5). The ability to reason and think is what really makes humans unique, essentially what sets Human Beings as being on top of the Food Chain. In the Penultimate statement Aristotle claims that if you take the ability of a human to reason and, think then you add ... in our ability to function well, Human beings are living life to the fullest. "Moreover, we take the human function to be a certain kind of life, and take this lif...

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... rational soul with wisdom as its virtue, the stratum of warriors, whose virtue is courage, the stratum of craftsmen, the desiring part of soul, with abstinence as its primary virtue, conforming to it. Such a division of aims detracts nothing from the principle of justice, as soon as it's founded not on social tenets, but on natural gifts, its foundations being not at all accidental. Making use of an ancient myth, in fact, Plato ... that balances passions, disappearing in "the unity of reason-, and where each individual "loses himself- as a private person in the rationality of State. Sta...

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... for evaluating human acts, choices, or life plans or as the object of maximizing calculations. For this reason, Dewey's pluralistic welfare consequentialism was rather vaguely grouped with other non-maximizing "consequentialists" such as Aristotle and David Hume. So long as ethical theories were necessarily either consequentialist or deontological, there was of course little choice. But as moral philosophers have come to recognize virtue ethics as ... in the two editions of Ethics. Although on the basis of these, Dewey is commonly credited with defining virtues as habits of action, the ...

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