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1 sty 2021 · In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (d. 322 BCE) tries to discover what is "the supreme good for man," that is, what is the best way to lead our life and give it meaning.
19 gru 2013 · Aristotle calls good habits excellences or virtues. Virtues of the mind are intellectual virtues; while virtues exemplified by a regular disposition to choose correctly are moral virtues. For Aristotle, wisdom is the most important intellectual virtue but moral virtue plays a special role in living well. The reason moral virtue—the habit of ...
15 maj 2007 · Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an answer to the question of what, if anything, makes life meaningful, although they typically have not put it in these terms (with such talk having arisen only in the past 250 years or so, on which see Landau 1997).
16 lut 2012 · The meaning of life according to Aristotle is achieiving happiness, and through our good actions we find happiness.
15 maj 2007 · Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an answer to the question of what, if anything, makes life meaningful, although they typically have not put it in these terms. Consider, for instance, Aristotle on the human function, Aquinas on the beatific vision, and Kant on the highest good.
Aristotle is the first philosopher on record to subject the meaning of life to systematic philosophical examination: he approaches the issue from logical, psychological, biological, and anthropological perspectives in some of ...
In Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives us a broad view of what he thinks it means to live a good life. For Aristotle, the good life is one in which we develop and exercise the distinctive human ability to think and act rationally.
