The goal of the Ethics is to determine how best to achieve happiness. This study is necessarily imprecise, since so much depends on particular circumstances. Happiness depends on living in accordance with appropriate virtues. Virtue is a disposition rather than an activity. That is, a virtuous person is naturally disposed to behave in the right ways and for the right reasons, and to feel pleasure in behaving rightly. Virtue is a mean state
Kedir Aliyi Phil 1030 Term paper ARISTOTLE Aristotle was a great philosopher of all time. Aristotle work has been influenced generational to generation. He was very innovative and visionary philosopher. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C.E. in the Macedonian Stagira in the northern Greek district of Chalcidice. Aristotle father, Nicomachus, was a physician which had a tremendous influence on his son. Nicomachus had excellent social connections, and Aristotle's interest in science was surely spurred by
process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of education is to create a sound mind in a sound body. Great educators in the past have explained the term “Education” as the art of “leading out” which means education is to draw out rather than to put in the whole of education