[MD] on Truth and Arete

[X Acto]

see:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/



 

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Subject: [MD] on Truth and Arete

What is often overshadowed in Aristotles work is his Nicomachian ethic which posits eudaimonia
as the ultimate good. It has stong interdependance with virtue and knowledge.
 
"
Aristotle claims that "every art and every scientific inquiry, and similarly every action and purpose, may be said to 
aim at some good. Hence 'the good' has been well defined as that at which all things aim." According to Aristotle, 
the hierarchy of human purposes aim at eudaimonia as the highest, most inclusive end. This is the end that everyone 
in fact aims at, and it is the only end towards which it is worth undertaking means. Eudaimonia is constituted, 
according to Aristotle, not by honor, or wealth, or power, but by rational activity in accordance with virtue over a 
complete life. Such activity manifests the virtues of character, including, honesty, pride, friendliness, and wittiness; 
the intellectual virtues, such as rationality in judgment; and non-sacrificial (i.e. mutually beneficial) friendships and 
scientific knowledge (knowledge of things that are fundamental and/or unchanging is the best)."-wiki


      
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