QUOTE Aristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function of a thing. An eye is only a good eye in so much as it can see, because the proper function of an eye is sight. Aristotle reasoned that man must have a function uncommon to anything else, and that this function must be an activity of the soul. Aristotle identified the best activity of the soul as eudaimonia: a happiness or joy that pervades the good life. Aristotle taught that to achieve the good life, one must live a balanced life and avoid excess. This balance, he taught, varies among different persons and situations, and exists as a golden mean between two vices - one an excess and one a deficiency. END QUOTE
What is the function that man must have that is uncommon?
2007-12-03 18:41:44 · 8 answers · asked by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since the soul remains completely without evidence I'm going to say rubbish. He also should have spent more time studying other mammals living in complex groups.
2007-12-03 18:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Q. What is the function that man must have that is uncommon
A. According to Aristotle its good will.
Virtue ethics is rubbish but Im too lazy tonight to give you all the reasons why.
2007-12-03 18:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by Future 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello Darling, I didn't think you were a thingy (whatever you said) lol, there are a lot of nice accents here in UK - but there are some dreadful ones as well. Different regions - different accents, I suppose it's like that in the states as well isn't it?
2016-04-07 07:21:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The function varies from person to person. For me it is medicine, for another it may be teaching orphans how to read.... I feel this is the foundation for a sound philosophy, but must be developed further
2007-12-04 07:54:22 · answer #4 · answered by dogwhisperer16 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to have to say rubbish. Why live a good, balanced life when a good life is truly defined by fulfilling all of my sexual desires?
2007-12-04 00:12:09 · answer #5 · answered by HAND 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aristotle laid the ground work for later philosophers, but his ideas really are outdated.
2007-12-03 18:45:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both of the same.
2007-12-04 13:29:09 · answer #7 · answered by Ace of Spades 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the achievement of ones aspirations .
2007-12-04 17:21:14 · answer #8 · answered by joe c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋