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Nicomachean Ethics and Modern Concepts

The document summarizes Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which discusses ethics and human happiness. It is composed of 10 books that examine moral virtue, intellectual virtues, continence, friendship, pleasure, and the relationship between ethics and politics. Aristotle believed people should cultivate moral virtues to find happiness. The document also notes how modern interpretations of ethics have changed from biblical rules as societies' views on issues like sex and minorities evolve.

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Nicomachean Ethics and Modern Concepts

The document summarizes Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which discusses ethics and human happiness. It is composed of 10 books that examine moral virtue, intellectual virtues, continence, friendship, pleasure, and the relationship between ethics and politics. Aristotle believed people should cultivate moral virtues to find happiness. The document also notes how modern interpretations of ethics have changed from biblical rules as societies' views on issues like sex and minorities evolve.

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NICOMACHEAN ETHICS AND MODERN CONCEPTS

Nicomachean Ethics; 1. Is a collection of ten Book VI: The Intellectual Virtues. (Science and
separate books of Aristotle on the ethics of life. Technology). It is the rational or reasoning part
of the soul
Aristotle; 1. He was a Greek philosopher and
polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Book VII: (Continence and Incontinence).
Greece. 2. Taught by Plato, he was the founder Aristotle examines how incontinence caused
of the Peripatetic school of philosophy within spirit or appetite and compares in contrast
the Lyceum and the wider Aristotelian tradition. incontinence with a seemingly similar vice, in
3. Aristotle is called the father of political temperance
science because he elaborated on the topics
and thinking of the Ideal State, slavery, Books VIII and IX: (Friendship). Aristotle said
revolution, education, citizenship, forms of here that the most lasting friendship will be
government, the theory of golden mean, theory based on virtue and not just on utility pleasures.
of constitution etc. Book X, Chap. 1-5: (Further discussion of
Book I, Chap. 1-3: (Nature of Ethics and Pleasure).
methods of studying Ethics.) Book X, Chap. 6-8: (Happiness, the end of
Book I, Chap. 4-12: (Discussion of Happiness human life).
and the good as the ends of human life). Book X, Chap. 9: (Relationship of Ethics and
Aristotle wants to find the highest human good Politics). Aristotle came back to the Role of
for individuals and communities “This good will pleasure and happiness.
be self-sufficient and capable of guiding humans
throughout their lives”. Modern Concept; 1. When developing new
interpretations of morals (and how they relate
Book II, Chap. 1-4: (Discussion of Moral to the four principles,) it is necessary to look at
Virtue) society's current moral trends. 2. Views of sex,
Book II, Chap. 5-9: (The Doctrine of the women, minorities and even lgbtq issues have
Mean). To be happy, people can strive for changed and continue to change as society
virtues of character which they cultivate new moves away from biblical rules.
habits. Nicomachus; The "Hidden Meaning" is "Victor
Book III, Chap. 1-5: (Moral purpose and moral in Battle".
responsibility)

Book III, Chap. 6-12 and Book IV: (Discussion


of particular moral virtues). 1. “Right actions
help people achieve virtuous states”.

Book V: (Discussion of Justice). Virtue in a


political community takes the form of Justice.

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