Philosophy of happyness: Aristotle (2/3)
“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.” (Aristotle)
virtues play a huge role in the theory of Aristotle´s ethics. "Arete" is the old greek word for "virtue". A being is "good" if he/ it behaves according to it´s purpose. A good knife cuts good. A good human is - wise, a thinker, politically engaged and so on. There are "moral virtues" and "ethical virtues". To reason is genuine for humans (we can discuss about this...), thats why "phronesis" - prudence/ practical wisdom is very important. The key point: Mesotes. The middle way between two maximum expression of one virtue is favorable. A person is drowning and you see it but you cant swim. Runnung away is corwardly, jumping into the water is foolhardy. Mesotes would be getting help. Thats courage....
Imho nowadays we kind of lose the Mesotes- thing, because our lifes tend to be extreme in different ways.
How do you maintain the middle? And isn´t an average life boring ^^
“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.” (Aristotle)
virtues play a huge role in the theory of Aristotle´s ethics. "Arete" is the old greek word for "virtue". A being is "good" if he/ it behaves according to it´s purpose. A good knife cuts good. A good human is - wise, a thinker, politically engaged and so on. There are "moral virtues" and "ethical virtues". To reason is genuine for humans (we can discuss about this...), thats why "phronesis" - prudence/ practical wisdom is very important. The key point: Mesotes. The middle way between two maximum expression of one virtue is favorable. A person is drowning and you see it but you cant swim. Runnung away is corwardly, jumping into the water is foolhardy. Mesotes would be getting help. Thats courage....
Imho nowadays we kind of lose the Mesotes- thing, because our lifes tend to be extreme in different ways.
How do you maintain the middle? And isn´t an average life boring ^^
Philosophy of happyness: Aristotle (2/3)
“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.” (Aristotle)
virtues play a huge role in the theory of Aristotle´s ethics. "Arete" is the old greek word for "virtue". A being is "good" if he/ it behaves according to it´s purpose. A good knife cuts good. A good human is - wise, a thinker, politically engaged and so on. There are "moral virtues" and "ethical virtues". To reason is genuine for humans (we can discuss about this...), thats why "phronesis" - prudence/ practical wisdom is very important. The key point: Mesotes. The middle way between two maximum expression of one virtue is favorable. A person is drowning and you see it but you cant swim. Runnung away is corwardly, jumping into the water is foolhardy. Mesotes would be getting help. Thats courage....
Imho nowadays we kind of lose the Mesotes- thing, because our lifes tend to be extreme in different ways.
How do you maintain the middle? And isn´t an average life boring ^^
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