Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an example of virtue ethics because Aristotle states that we are not inquiring to know what virtue is, but in order to become good. ... Continuing with the idea of a moral education in Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle asserts that virtues, both intellectual and moral, are not by nature. ... In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lays out the idea that all knowledge and every action of man aims at some good, and he claims that the chief good of man is to be happy, and that this good is only achievable through activity of the soul exhibiting excelle...

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Aristotle's Politics is a continuation of his Nicomachean Ethics, whose investigation of what is the supreme good for a human being he conceives as "a sort of political science", politike tis (I.2.1094b11). At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates:...

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The quote "The statement that the happy man lives well and acts well, too, is in harmony with the definition of happiness" (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics page 5) demonstrates Aristotle's view. ... Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics states "In anyone who has a function or an action to perform the goodness or excellence lies in that function" (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics pg. 3). ... According to Aristotle finding goodness is in essence finding happiness. ... Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and The Bhagavad-Gita both share the view that action is the nature of the soul...

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Vices in the inferno thus concur with Aristotle's Ethical framework insofar as vice, as posited by Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics, is characterized similarly by immoderacy and incontinence. ... Although their Ethical agendas are constructed differently and Aristotle's Ethics lack sins against God, Dante and Aristotle generally seem to condemn the same sins (either an extreme or a deficiency). ... He writes, "he who pursues them [the pleasures concerned with those bodily indulgences] to excess and avoids excessive pains not from rational choice but in opposition to it and his thi...

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According to Aristotle, virtue primarily involves the use of a person's rationality. ... "Virtues are neither feelings nor capacities" (Nicomachean Ethics 1106a 12). ... Virtue involves maintaining a balance between and pleasure: "For virtue of character is about pleasures and pains" (Nicomachean Ethics 1104b3-10), Aristotle stressed that this moderation of pain and pleasure is an extremely important aspect of virtue. ... " virtue of a character is a mean and what sort of mean it is; that it is a mean between two vices- (Nicomachean Ethics 1109a-20) Aristotle emphasizes that balance...

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Aristotle "The range of Aristotle's interest and intellect is extraordinary. ... When Aristotle was about ten years old his father died. ... Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek, rhetoric, and poetry. ... For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. ... To his son Nicomachus he dedicated his work on ethics, called the Nicomachean Ethics. ...

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Aristotle understood the importance of friendship, books VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics deal solely with friendship. ... In this essay I will outline what Aristotle said about friendship in the Nichomachaen Ethics and highlight possible flaws in his arguments. ... Of course, Aristotle would disagree. ... Aristotle would disagree. ... In this essay I have outlined some of Aristotle's views on friendship as he discussed in the Nichomachaen Ethics, books VIII and XI. ...

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Abstract According to Aristotle, everything we pursue or aim at is good. ... To his son Nicomachus he dedicated his work on ethics, called the Nicomachean Ethics, this is the first systematic treatment of ethics in Western civilization. ... Aristotle as an attempt to find out our highest good views ethics as the end, which he maintains, is really final. ... Such a person lacks what Aristotle calls moral virtue. ... Aristotle's Doctrine of Mean and view of choice provides a link between ethics and effective leadership. ...

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It becomes clear after reading this passage that he set up his commentaries much like Aristotle set up the Nicomachean Ethics. ... During his lecture, much like Aristotle, John Duns Scotus surely would have added further pertinent information and the missing details to fill in the holes where ideas become unclear. ...

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." - Aristotle Academic habits can be seen as a mental attitude and behavioral practice that facilitates a student's learning and makes excelled learning and progressive development possible during the educational years. ... For example, in Book II of his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explains the requirements of virtue and the methods by which we develop virtue, mainly through the process of habituation, and especially through the development of an individual's powers of discernment. Aristotle explains that the acquisition of virtues is brought about through the development of well...

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Aristotle also deals with this issue in a similar way in his Nicomachean Ethics. In his investigation of justice, Aristotle argues that intention is crucial for an action that is in to be considered virtuous. ...

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