Aristotle Key concepts
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- Created on: 18-05-17 11:38
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- Aristotle 384 - 322 BC
- Eudaimonia
- Translated as happiness or human flourishing.
- Can only be achieved by living the 'Good Life'
- The Good Life
- The good life is one of contemplation.
- We need to practise the virtues in order to make them a habit.
- Practise = Habit
- A good life is a virtuous one.
- The 4 types of people:
- Vicious: someone who does not want to be virtuous
- Incontinent: Someone who isn't virtuous but knows they should be
- Continent: someone who is virtuous but is not satisfied.
- Virtuous: someone who wants to be good so does good.
- The 4 types of people:
- The Good Life
- Human flourishing is to be achieved by those whose lives are blessed.
- Causation
- Material Cause
- Efficient Cause
- Final Cause
- Formal Cause
- Causation
- Teleological world view
- In order to know why we do the things we do we must first know what our purpose is.
- The community
- We need to help those in our community by giving them opportunities to be virtuous and achieve eudaimonia.
- Friendship:
- Utility: These are our aqcuintances or people we need for something.
- ******: These are our family or partners, intimate relations
- Complete friendship: someone who makes you a better person.
- Virtues
- Cardinal Virtues
- Fortitude
- Temperance
- Prudence
- Justice
- Intellectual Virtues
- Primary
- Scientific Knowledge
- Art/Technial skill
- Prudence
- Wisdom
- Intelligence/ intuition
- Secondary
- Cleverness
- Resourcefullness
- Understanding
- Judgement
- Primary
- Moral Virtues
- Courage
- Liberality
- Temperance
- Magnanimity
- Magnificence
- Right Ambition
- Righteousness
- Open mindedness
- Friendliness
- Wittiness
- The Golden Mean
- The golden mean is the right amount of each virtue.
- It is finding the right balance between 2 vices of:
- Excess
- Deficiency
- Cardinal Virtues
- The Soul
- There are 3 types of soul:
- Rational
- Vegatitive
- Sensitive
- We need all 3 to have a fully functioning soul.
- We have a rational and irrational soul.
- Rational = logic and reason (Intellectual virtues)
- Irrational = needs/desires (Moral virtues)
- We have a rational and irrational soul.
- There are 3 types of soul:
- Subordinate Aim: small aims done to achieve the superior aims.
- Superior Aims: Bigger aims done to achieve Eudaimonia
- Eudaimonia
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