Aristotle and Nicomachean Ethics

In this paper, I ordain discuss several components of the nigh(a) action that Aristotle lays out in his renowned work, Nicomachean Ethics. Aa student of Plato, Aristotle believed that rapture depends on ourselves. (Russell) According to Aristotle felicitousness is the central purpose of biography and is the goal all small-arm attempts to reach. Furthermore, Aristotle believed the highest obedient of humans life is happiness and is achieved by brisk a life of virtue. The two most valuable questions to Aristotle were what is the good life and how rat one achieve it. He believed happiness was dependent on virtue or a variety of conditions both somatogenic and mental. He believed friendship, virtue and the withdraw of the highest things where criteria of the good life.\nAristotle argued virtue is reached by maintaining the Mean. Virtue involves the middle weft between two extremes the overplus and the deficiency. Some of these deterrent example virtues implicate courage, wit, modesty, and generosity these are what he considers the Mean. Aristotle also believed humans buttocks exhibited too much or too little moral virtues (deficiency, excess). Some of these include cowardliness, shamelessness, rashness and bashfulness. Virtue prompts a soul to make a rational decision. According to Aristotle happiness is the action of the soul and we demonstrate these virtues by voluntary means. Nicomachean Ethics, began by seance a question each art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at any(prenominal) good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. (Nicomachean Ethics) Because his ethical theory contains certain propositions virtually mans purpose, his egress in society, and what is in his beat interest it is often viewed as being teleological.\nAristotle looks to nature to exempt happiness. He says every living thing has a soul. Because plants hear nourishme nt to grow (vegetative) they turn out a soul. ...