Williesha Doakes May 5‚ 2011 Agree or Disagree: Lying is sometimes necessary. As children we have all been lied to for generations about frivolous thins such as The Tooth Fairy‚ Santa Claus and The Easter Bunny. What happens when the truth comes out and feelings are hurt? Then you have to ask yourself was it really necessary? I disagree that lying is sometimes necessary. Lying especially under oath is punishable by law‚ makes others think of you as disloyal and untrustworthy and is so much more
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Human nature is constructed to aim for something good at the end of every act. Every human aims at achieving the happiness as an end result. That is the reason why in this paper‚ I will argue that Aristotle’s theory‚ Nicomachean Ethics‚ is the most plausible theory in describing human nature and answering the question of how one should live in order to attain happiness. According to Aristotle all the human activities are directed towards a final end‚ which he claims to be the happiness. He also claims
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analysis of political activity and behavior‚ must be closely studied together in order to fully grasp the meaning of and obtain the good way of life. Aristotle believes that there is only one goal‚ one ultimate end for every individual—that is eudaimonia‚ translated as happiness‚ not as a feeling but happiness as the highest human good or a life full of activity. He claims that a person should live a way of life distinct from the lives of animals‚ where they only live for the sake of living or pleasure
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success. Attaining what the Greeks called ‘eudaimonia’ is incredibly difficult‚ as one must behave virtuously and with reason throughout his entire life. While there are a number of other requirements‚ Aristotle’s recognition of the great positive influence that friends have on one’s self proves that we cannot live a fulfilling life without friendship. Human beings seek true friendships as they are mutualistic‚ and ultimately‚ they allow people to achieve eudaimonia. In the text‚ Aristotle recognizes how
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The Greek word generally translated as “happiness” is eudaimonia‚ and it can equally be rendered as “success” or “flourishing.” People who are eudaimon are not in a particular emotional state so much as they are living successfully. While happiness is the activity of living well‚ virtue represents the potential
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People have defined happiness as some kind of good of a human being. In Nicomachean Ethics: Book I‚ Aristotle defines happiness as the activity of living well‚ which in the Greek word is called eudaimonia. He tends to think that happiness is how we balance and moderate our lives to seek the highest pleasures‚ which he calls maintaining the mean. In the following excerpt from Book I‚ Aristotle talks about how happiness presumably consists in attaining some good or set of goods. “Now goods have
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Aristotle asks a fundamental question. Why are we here? Is there an end goal for us? What is the ultimate purpose of humans? One of his key arguments was the state of happiness. The definition has changed over time‚ from the time of the Greeks to now. Eudaimonia is a Greek word that roughly translates to Happiness. Although the more accurate translation is “Human Prosperity and Flourishing”‚ we use this word broadly‚ as Happiness. In modern times‚ happiness is defined as a
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function of humans is an activity of the soul and must act in accordance with virtue‚ or goodness.” A person can only be happy when they are fulfilling their function. (Cahn 114). When a person is fulfilling their function‚ they are eudaimon. Eudaimonia is the Greek term for
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Life is full of happy days and sad days‚ the latter being more common in life. A happy day is that day when everything seems to go well with life and loved ones‚ though these happy days are also different from each other due to the degree of happiness they impart. The happiest day of my life is the day when my elder brother graduated from the IIT‚ Delhi. One would wonder why and how should that event make me so very happy‚ that‚ I earmark it as the happiest day of my life. Yes‚ I call this day as
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If I were a millionaire‚ I would have a plan to use the money in the best possible way. This is how I would go about it: First‚ I would give alms to the beggars in my town. I would particularly help the blind and the maimed beggars. I do not have an iota‚ of respect for the able - bodied ones. When this would be done‚ I would send for all my poor relations‚ and give at least a thousand rupees to each of them. I have a very poor relation‚ a struggling writer. I would give him five thousand rupees
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