What does Aristotle mean by virtue? ... Virtue is the instrument humans use to reach Eudaimonia. ... They live a life of continuous virtuous actions that involve reason which is a trait which is distinctively human. Without reason behind a virtuous action, the action will not be virtuous because that action will be committed in ignorance. ... Aristotle explains that one must deliberate and reason before doing an action because the individual must learn how to act in the virtuous manner until this becomes second nature to the individual. ...

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Therefor a prudent person "grasps the truth, [by] involving reason, concerned with action about things that are good or bad for a human being" (Aristotle 89). A prudent person may use scientific knowledge to help become knowledgeable in how to react to a situation, in order to become prudent and reasonable. ... The first two Aristotle states are implausible. ... This is because the one trying to become friends for the reason of knowledge is just doing it for the utility of the other. ... On the other hand Aristotle says that those using a friendship just for the profit of themselve...

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Chapter 2 is when Aristotle first compares people to animals, and states that the reasons he uses are all based in nature. ... Aristotle states that those who possess natural insight should rule those who use their body for labor, and that this relationship is beneficial to both. ... A piece of property that is used as a tool is for production, whereas an actual piece of property is used for action. Aristotle further justifies slavery here by stating that a slave is a piece of property, and a tool to be used by his master. ... However, force is used in war, and if it wins out it must hav...

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Aristotle believes that eudaimonia is the final goal in life. ... It is the highest part because it is the use of reason that makes us different from the "horse, ox, and every animal.... " What he means is that the use of reason is understood as an action, but acting in a rational way. ... Aristotle's function argument states that our unique human function is the use of reason. ... Aristotle talks about earning the good life by acting according to virtue and reason. ...

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He also maintained that reason can support faith. ... Aristotle declared that a human being is "the rational animal" whose function is to reason. Thus, according to Aristotle, a happy life for human beings is a life governed by reason." ... The highest happiness of all, Aristotle believed, was the contemplative use of the mind." ... For example, how can the word table be used for all the individual objects that are tables? ...

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Aristotle-bravery In this essay I will be describing the virtue of bravery. ... Aristotle breaks down virtue into four aspects which are: a state that decides in mean, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined by reference to reason(1107a). ... Aristotle uses several examples to define a the bravery virtue. ... Aristotle's next step is to define a brave person's state of character. ... He says that they are similar but their confident for the wrong reason being that they feel they are stronger and nothing could happen to them, and when things turn for the wo...

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To overcome this Aristotle changes his basic rules. ... In the end, according to Aristotle, citizenship depends on the state of development of the most important part of human nature, the capacity to reason. ... He writes; "people are slaves by nature, whose condition is such that their function is the use of their bodies and nothing better can be expected of them and who participate in reason, "so far as to recognize it but not so far as to possess." He is quite clear, "if you're not able to reason, you're not able to become a citizen.... Although he does not deny that the...

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The nature of the virtuous dispositions can be discovered by using the doctrine of the Mean. ... There are two reasons for this. ... Commentary The idea of moderation plays a central role in the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, in the histories of Herodotus, and in the surviving plays of Ancient Greece. In this section, Aristotle uses...

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The ultimate goal in human activity is to achieve, through reason in virtues, happiness, a state desirable in itself for no other reason. ... But in order to achieve happiness Aristotle says that one must use reason in virtue. Aristotle concludes that the ability to use reason is a special trait with which humans contain. ... Aristotle says that humans use reason to find a balance between excesses and deficiencies in life virtues. ... Aristotle says that happiness is the ultimate goal of human activity because it takes a life time to find the right reason and means of a virtue and happiness ...

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I personally find it odd that Aristotle's views differ so much from Plato's views when he was a student of Plato. ... The reason should rule and spirit should be its ally in controlling the dangerous, self-indulgent inclinations and desires of the appetites (pomerleau, 14). ... Aristotle's theory discusses that there are different types of souls, not different parts. ... It uses the metaphors that when the body dies the soul releases from it like a breath or puff of smoke; another metaphor is Plato relates the soul to a man who weaves cloaks and when they get to old he weaves...

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"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). ... 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. ... From what I understood from this article is that the main reason for Human Existence is to be virtuous and one way to be Virtuous is to function as best as they can, and to use our special ability as humans to be even more vir...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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A play can still be a tragedy even if it doesn't use any of the Shakespearean Tragedy elements. ... Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Aristotle stresses diction is important to make a tragedy believable. ... Claudius knows Hamlet is capable of killing him, he also knows he can't kill Hamlet to protect himself, reason being that too many people love him and it can't be founded he killed King Hamlet. ...

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In "Poetics," Aristotle writes, "Thus, tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and possessing magnitude; in embellished language, each kind of which is used separately in the different parts; in the mode of action and not narrated; and effecting through pity and fear [what we call] the catharsis of such emotions" (670). ... His selfish and short-tempered attitude is the reason why he is a victim of such cruel fate. Other than the magnitude and seriousness of the play, Aristotle believes the language and the melody used in the play must also be appropriate for...

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Aristotle even wrote and essay on his view on the subject. ... She literally served him with all of herself and used any means to help Jason get what he wanted and according to Aristotle this makes her a good wife. ... Jason running off to marry another women, for whatever reason, makes him unfaithful therefore Medea is allowed to act in an unrighteous manner. Thus, Medea technically didn't break Aristotle's rules or is at least excused from it because Jason broke Aristotle's other rule first. Concisely, Medea was a good wife because she served Jason...

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The question is what would I do and why, what would Aristotle say about my decision. ... Aristotle would most likely disagree with my selection because it does not involve telling the truth, and without truth there is not morality. ... In his theory he also states that decisions are based on sensation, desire and reason.... (Souryal, 143) Thought my decision would be morally wrong which goes against Aristotle's theory my reasoning for my actions would prevail my wrongful actions. ... I used logical thinking in my decision in and in a sense I thought morally in an immoral situation. ...

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"We recognize pleasure as the first good innate in us, and from pleasure we begin every act of choice and avoidance, and to pleasure we return again, using the feeling as the standard by which we judge every good." ... He states that the "highest good must be something final" (Aristotle). ... Aristotle believes that eudemonia, (happiness in a life of activity governed by reason) is the highest pleasure, whereas the philosopher Sigmund Freud believes that sex is the highest form of pleasure. ... Although this idea may seem a little far fetched at first, take a look at society today and think...

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Aristotle says "Everyone loves and seeks or pursues or desire everything they love or seek or pursue or desire for one and the same reason: because they hope it will make the happy." ... Money been a mean is the reason why it cant be the final end because it purpose is to be used for a end and a mean cant be a end. ...

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To prove this statement, Aristotle pointed, "Argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.... One of the main reasons why people get so mixed up is because both strategies are considered generally important. ... The enthymemes are divided into three fundamental parts, the claim, reason and the unknown assumptions provided by the targeted audience. ... One of the major reasons I've aligned the use of logic to create my public argument is due to the fact that it appeals to all of the readers, making them feel smart due to the vast numbe...

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