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Hobbes Locke And Rousseau

THE GOOD FOR MAN
The issue to found what is the good for man is a controversial issue. As many philosophers discussed this issue, in other words to find the definite Good, Aristotle thinks that "the good for man is politics." Aristotle thinks so that the good can be defined as an "all things am" (1094a). According to him, to be able to reach a something, everybody should have a target, in this way they can easily reach to the needed. Therefore, Aristotle thinks that "this aim" should be resolute as a science, and this science can only be the politics as an "authoritative and the master art" (1094a29). The reason why he chose the politics is that it includes other knowledge and capacities such as strategy and economics. The aim of politics is the aim of all other capacities, and it is to find "the good for the man" (ethics I.3). While we are discussing the idea of Aristotle about politics and its aim, we shouldn't forget the ideas of his teacher Plato. There are some......


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