Aristotle

and preserves the friendship” (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1163b). Aristotle is concerned with balance in the nature of friendship, suggesting that the amount given and received in a friendship must be exchanged both proportionally and reciprocally. He suggests that friendships last “when the love is in proportion to the merit of the parties”, meaning that in a relationship of people who are unequal, the person who is most worthy should be loved the most (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics,…

Aristotle is largely concerned in the Politics with the idea of political virtue and the effects it has on the formation of the government. He defines political virtue as having a sense of justice, dedication to the common good, and prudence. Throughout his discussion of how various regimes see political virtue, Aristotle refuses to take sides. However, he ultimately argues that the most just regime gives political power to those with the most political virtue. Aristotle concludes that the best…

good. Aristotle first states that the term good can be seen as a goal that a human may aim to act upon. These human actions are performed for the supreme good which many refer to as happiness. This is because of happiness being an end sufficient in itself such as an individual gaining knowledge or virtue resulting in that person feeling happy, There are some philosophers who believe that pleasure is determined to be the ultimate good while others view pleasure as being entirely bad. Aristotle…

with an acquaintance or an encounter with a person you just met can trigger a so-called “friendship” to arise almost immediately. However Aristotle, an early Greek philosopher whose principles are outlined in his book The Nicomachean Ethics and have lingered until the present, had much narrower conditions regarding how legitimate friendships develop. Aristotle was a firm believer that not just anyone can be a genuine friend and that not every relationship qualified to be a friendship. He…

Aristotle and Epicurus are two Greek philosophers who had a significant impact on the people of their time based on their philosophical ideas, concepts, and theories. However, many of Aristotle’s views on ethics are still incorporated into modern philosophy. Their philosophies are quite different yet shared many commonalities. Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue in comparison to Epicurus’ Theory of Hedonism is substantially more realistic and more solid. A society would be better thriving off of…

In order to better understand the concept of Virtue ethics it is necessary to analyze certain philosophers. These philosophers are Socrates through Plato, and Aristotle. There are three branches of normative ethics, and virtue ethics composes one of them; unlike deontology and consequentialism, virtue ethics focuses on the moral character of the individual, hence the name virtue – ethics (Hursthouse). Even though Aristotle’s and Plato’s approach to ethics, are that of virtue ethics, their points…

NTRODUCTION of philosophy: Those stories from claiming theory Previously, Western progress starts to aged Greece, which generated three of the world’s best thinkers, namely, Socrates, Plato and aristotle. Same time it might a chance to be decent on start our contemplate with Socrates, the primary unmistakable figure in the history for philosophy, those truth is that Socrates didn't make as much sees from dainty air. Rather, he might have been those outgrowth of a strikingly ripe philosophical…

Even though Plato’s actual name was Aristocles, similar to Aristotle’s, Plato and Aristotle were two different philosophers during the fifth century BC (Morris). Plato and Aristotle are two notable philosophers, in which, their reasoning’s are still widely known today. However, after reading about Plato and Aristotle, each of them were interesting individuals. There is one major difference between the two philosophers, which is that they have different styles of reasoning. By having different…

“Aristotle remains one of the most important thinkers of all times” (May). According to Aristotle in his Rhetoric, effective rhetoric is defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion (24-25). In other words, it can be used in any situation to persuade regardless of what the topic may be by using ethos, pathos, and logos. Aristotle found that appealing to the feelings of the audience they could be persuaded to do things because they feel they are being…

dedicated their entire lives to answer questions such as these. Among all the philosophers out there personally I felt that Aristotle and Kant have had the greatest influence on society and most of their writing are still relevant in modern day society. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher, born in Macedonia, his father, Nicomachus was the court physician who died when Aristotle was young in 367 BCE, he was sent to Plato’s academy where he spent some time and then left the academy to…