Aristotle says: 'Every wicked man is ignorant of what he ought to do and what he ought to refrain from doing?

Question

your thoughts

Answer 1

aristotle is wrong--all the wicked people I have ever known knew full well they were doing something wrong, they just didn't care

Answer 2

Wow, I disagree with this. There are some wicked people who know what they ought to do and refrain from doing--and they are particularly wicked because on purpose they do the thing they should refrain from doing.

But I'm thinking about a certain type of wicked person here--the one who intellectually can distinguish between right and wrong, but whose heart, or soul, can't tell the difference. That is, certain people have moved enough within society to have gotten a sense of what other people's moral compasses are, but they have no such compass of their own--so, they know what to do to fit in and such, but they aren't moved from their own soul to do right.

Then there are the people who do have a moral compass but who ignore it because they're lazy, on drugs, angry, and so forth. I know plenty of these as well.

I think Aristotle is wrong here, all told.

Answer 3

Aristotle meant that every man/woman is unaware of the fact that every thought, and every deed is being tallied up as either good or bad, and if we do what we ought to do then we progress, but if we refrain from doing what we ought to do then we digress (become wicked).

Answer 4

What he ought to do:
All the good things that he could be doing... that are alot better for everyone.
Guys can be nice rather than just being jerks, assholes, dickheads, and so on.
What he ought to refrain from doing:
This is a long list of things because man does more wrong than right... he he.
Let's see:
Beating women/ so wrong why do guys do it?
Sex/ tooooo much of it is a bad thing.
Drinking/ yep, we do it sooo much... it leeds to bad things.
Drugs/ of course it fries your brain damn it.
The list goes on.

Don't get me wrong some women are bad too...

We just don't think about the good things we could do and get into fights and do sooo much dumb stuff.
Wicked?
Well, bad men don't think about things before doing em' I'd have to say.

Answer 5

He closes his eyes on what is right
but jumps at temptations with the eyes wide open

Answer 6

or chooses to be ignorant

some even delight in doing the wrong thing even though they know the right thing.

Answer 7

The symbolic term is "blind"......

Scripture says there is no light in them.... the term "light" refers to goodness, mercy and understanding. Where there is no "light", there are ignorant men who desire the "darkness" because they cannot "see" to reason correctly.......

Let the "blind" bury the "blind"........


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Answer 8

I agree with †Hayden† †Lyfe†

Answer 9

probably true

Answer 10

so?