Aristotle - The Human Good
Aristotle: The Human Good
Aristotle is said to have written over a hundred philosophical treatises. The ones that survive touch on an enormous range of philosophical problems, from biology and physics to morals to aesthetics to politics. Many of these treatises however, are thought to be more of “lecture notes” rather than complete treatises. However, Aristotle wrote on ethics, dedicated to his son Nicomachus, known as the Nicomachean Ethics. One might describe his Ethics as the art of living, the way to live a full and complete life. Aristotle not only teaches the art of living, but he teaches us that it is hard work. In the text, he discusses what the “good” for a human being is: what this good includes, and how it amounts to the end of all our other actions.
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good….” (Ethics pg. 308,1). In his Ethics, Aristotle does little more than to search for and......
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