Javier A. Tabush

Nicomachean Ethics
- Are all bad things pleasurable?
- Do we don't do bad things we could actually do?
- During one of our dialogue Javier Parellada mentioned that we could throw a nuclear bomb in some part of the world but we don't do it just for the likes of it.
- I mentioned that the WE is referring to humanity, and other humans HAVE thrown atomic bombs before.
- Does every action have to be good or bad?
- 3 objects of choice: noble, advantegeous, pleasant
- 3 objects of avoidance: injurious, painful, base
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- Men, to be just are not necessarily just by doing just acts
- Knowledge, choose the acts, unchangeable character
- Sometimes, just and temperate acts happen by chance
- CHANCE / OTHER PEOPLE / HIMSELF.
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Important questions about the text
1. What is/isn´t virtue/vice?
2. Do humans have a purpose?
3. What is "right"?
4. Why is being praised a characteristic of virtue?
5. Is it possible to succeed in ONLY one way?
6. Why is aristotle speaking to us?
7. What is mean of excess/mean of deficiency?
8. What defines the one good way? How?
9. Do all humans have the same purpose?
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ESSAY ON NICOMACHEAN ETICHS brainstorm
What is virtue?
- A state of character
- Intellectual vs. moral
- teaching
- experience and time
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them"
- We are adapted by nature to recieve virtue, and perfect it by habit
- temperance -------- virtue
- excess of food & excercise
"...for the man who abstains from bodily pleasures and delights in this very fact is temperate..."
" And we measure our actions...by the rule of pleasure and pain"
Virtue vs. Arts
Actions:
- just and temperate
- just and temperate men
- as just and temperate men woud do them
Virtue of man (A mean to what is good and bad) - what makes the man good
"to miss the mark easy, to hit the mark difficult"