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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have been a source of inspiration and discussion for over 2,000 years. How do we live a virtuous life? By practicing . . .
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Aristotle's Ethics

Published on Nov 06, 2015

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, lectures delivered to his students over 2,000 years ago, is a profound study of the ends to which our conduct should be directed.

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Aristotle and Virtue

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have been a source of inspiration and discussion for over 2,000 years. How do we live a virtuous life? By practicing . . .
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Happiness?

What is
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Highest Good

Aristotle calls it the summum bonum:
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An "Activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."

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Eudaimonia -- Flourishing!

Happiness is . . .
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"Our task is to become good men, or to achieve the highest human good. That good is happiness; and happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."

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Virtue

Not about being a 'saint'
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Do well

In all that you do . . .
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Excellence

To perform well . . .
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Human

To practice well what you are:
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Being human

To do well at the task of
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"Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, the mean relative to us, this being determined by a rational principle . . . by which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."

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"Moral goodness is the result of habit."

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"Anything we have to learn . . .we learn by the actual doing of it."

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"It is a difficult business to be good."

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"Avoid excess and deficiency . . . Look for the mean and choose it."

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"To have the right feelings at the right times on the right grounds towards the right people for the right motives and in the right way. . .This is the mark of virtue."

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Reference

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. J. A. K. Thomson. Penguin Books, 1953.
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Learn Up!

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Barry Casey

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