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. ... Another way in which Nicomachean Ethics is an example of virtue ethics is that Aristotle states that we need to conduct ourselves according to the right rule, but it must be recognized that our actions are prescribed in outline and never precisely; that what is demanded of us, and what is good for us is always relative to the subject matter and never constant. ... Continuing with the idea of a moral education in Nicomache...

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In the 1st Book of Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle began an argument by stating "But presumably the remark that the best good is happiness is apparently something [generally] agreed, and we still need a clearer statement of what the best good is. ...

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, he expresses his opinions on the basis of thought through eudaimonia and arete. ... Aristotle begins Nicomachean Ethics with an explanation of the "chief good."" ... (Aristotle, p. 105) Aristotle uses many examples of character traits in the Nichhomaean Ethics. ...

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Aristotle states that there are "three most favored lives" " (Nicomachean Ethics 256). ... First, let us look at the virtues of thought such as wisdom, comprehension, and prudence (Nicomachean Ethics 265). ... It is a mean between two vices, one of excess and one of deficiency" (Nicomachean Ethics 269). ... The principle of an action is decision; and the principle of decision is desire and right reason (Nicomachean Ethics 308). ... In Book VI (Nicomachean Ethics), Aristotle defines the five states of the soul that contribute to a contemplative life. ...

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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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Nicomachean Ethics explains that every human action results in an end in that one considers good. ... Throughout Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, the effort to reach the final good is something one must do. ... In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, happiness has a different definition then how others view. ... Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle is a philosophical journal that expresses the nature of the good life for a human being. ... Throughout Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, the effort to reach the final good is something one must do. ...

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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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"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 between each of these three different extremes is a vital part of being a virtuous person. .....

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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). ... Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and The Bhagavad-Gita both share the view that action is the nature of the soul. ...

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In Book One Section vii of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle considers the nature of the good for man and what would be the ultimate end or object of human life. ... Aristotle therefore begins his Ethics with a discussion of happiness and so uses that as his starting-point, showing the reader the reward for an ethical life and then defining an ethical life to show how to achieve that reward....

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Probably his greatest achievements however, were his treaties on human nature in his Ethics' series. The most famous of the ethics books is the Nicomachean Ethics, in which Aristotle lays down his theories on the nature of justice, vice, virtue and basically anything else that causes the human race to question their morality. ... The Argument for Eudaimonia In Book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to reason his way towards Eudaimonia. ... Aristotle seems to have written the Ethics in order to understand the nature of man. ...

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Nicomachean Ethics is arguably Aristotle's best known work on ethics. ... According to Aristotle's account of virtue in book 2 of Nicomachean Ethics, he divides virtue into two categories: intellectual virtues and moral virtues. ... Throughout the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle has demonstrated his arguments regarding why he believes eudaimonia to be human beings' ultimate end. ...

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Aristotle was an ethicist who established a fundamental moral theory knows as "virtue ethics- still widely, applicable today. His ethics had to do with matters of character and virtues, which produce good character traits. According to Aristotle's book Nicomachean Ethics, some things are good because they lead us to other goods that we desire, some things are good, and at the same time, the means to a good end. ... A child, who is taught good ethics, will keep building on them and grow up to be an intellectual adult....

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According to Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics, virtue is described as neither a feeling nor capacity but a settled state or disposition. ... In reference to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, there are those who appear to be courageous and those who are actual courageous people. ...

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Two of Aristotle's most famous works, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, offer an outline of his perfect society and how Athens could ascend to his ideals. ... In fact, he states in Nicomachean Ethics that if an individual can reach the pinnacle of good, then it "[would] be the good achievable by action" (941). ...

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The first element of philosophy is ethics. Ethics is a system or code of moral values. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics insists on the necessity of earthly goods, to some degree, for the truly happy life, and even so for the philosopher. ... He also considered ethics a large part of his logic (Copleston 270). ... Philosophy is a controversial topic because of the diverse areas covered, physics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics. ...

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That gave way to my realization that there was a paradox in cheating in Ethics class. ... So, onward I trudged into an abyss of ethics, of thoughts of what Aristotle would have done. Clearly, in his Nicomachean Ethics writings, he touches on the virtue of making the right decisions. ...

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Upon reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, I initially thought that human virtue was to be happy, to achieve happiness. ... On gaining a better understanding to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, I've found that in reality, human virtue is so much more than achieving happiness. ...

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Master and pupil, Plato and Aristotle, through their respective works, "The Republic" and "Nicomachean Ethics," have each written extensively on the topic of happiness and fulfillment. ... In The Republic, Plato brings to surface knowledge as an important source for happiness, while in Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle expands on his teachers lessons, offers criticisms, and creates his own definitions. ...

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Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira, a small town on the northern coast of Greece that was once a seaport. Aristotle's father, Nicomachus, was court physician to the Macedonian king Amyntas II. Although Nicomachus died when Aristotle was just a young boy, Aristot...

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"Ethics and politics. ... Aristotle's works on this subject include the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics." ... "Ethics. ... "Thus, for Plato, the basic problem of ethics is a problem of knowledge. ... Plato differed from many Christian philosophers who have tended to view the basic problem of ethics as a problem of the will. ...

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John Duns Scotus: Commentary on the Sentences In the Middle Ages, Peter Lombard's Four Books of Sentences became the standard theological text. Like many of the theologians of his time, John Duns Scotus lectured and wrote commentaries on this work by Peter Lombard. He lectured for years on Th...

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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. ... 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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