Aristotle's View
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- Aristotle's View
- Eudaimonia
- 2 types of ends: Supreme and Subordinate
- Eudaimonia supreme end for life
- Desirable for its own sake
- Everything is desirable for its sake
- Not desirable for some other end
- 3 views on Eudaimonia
- Pleasure seeking
- Honour seeking
- Wisdom seeking
- Human Nature/Soul
- Rational part
- Scientific part- a priori knowledge
- Calculative part- weighs up all information
- Fruit/Cake example
- Irrational part
- Vegetative part- survival instinct, seeks food and nourishment
- Desiderative part- distinguishes needs and wants
- Fruit/Cake example
- Reason must harmonise all different parts as it is our unique trait. Excellence in reason leads to Eudaimonia
- Rational part
- Virtues/Skills
- Moral virtues
- Developed in the irrational part of the soul
- 12 of them including: Courage, Liberality, Temperance, Munificence, Friendliness, Sincerity and Wittiness
- Developed by habit
- Lies between two extremes or vice. Vice of deficiency and vice of excess
- Training is needed to achieve this mean
- Three Characters in regards to the mean
- Virtuous Person- always acts in the mean and loves doing virtuous actions
- Continent person- sometimes tempted by vice but with will power overcomes it and does the right thing most of the time
- Incontinent Person- weak willed undisciplined and always gives into vice.
- Intellectual Virtues
- Learned through instruction
- developed in the rational part of the soul
- helps in deciding the Mean
- example of breaking bad news to friend
- 9 intellectual virtues. Including: practical wisdom, intuitive intelligence, scientific knowledge, wisdom and technical skills
- Cardinal Virtues
- Practical wisdom, Justice
- Courage, Temperance
- Moral virtues
- Friendship and Community
- For Eudaimonia, Virtue is necessary but not sufficient
- Friendship and community are an essential part of the eudaimonic life
- Help us grow and flourish
- Help us grow and flourish
- example of drug abuse in city but not in rural areas
- Eudaimonia
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