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Aristotle - Coggle Diagram
Aristotle
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Good life - man flourishes when they are happy and they are happy when they live according to reason.
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Eudemonia - ultimate telos of human - good life= happy life- an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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Purpose (telos) of human life is to live a good and happy life and happiness ( Eudemonia depends on cultivation of virtue (arete)
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For Aristotle Goodness is potentially inside each and everyone of us but it must be actualized by being cultivated.
Ethical virtues help humans in their actions and intellectual virtues help humans to know how to choose good actions.
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Particular function is rationality since we distinguish human from animals and plants- "Man is a rational animal"
Ultimate end of human life (telos) is eudemonia (happiness). Eudemonia reached through proper use of man's function (ergon) - reason which allows us to cultivate virtue (arete)
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