Chapter 7 Flashcards
Everyone is in pursuit of
Good life
Understand World and Reality, Understand-
Self and Good life
Understand the world PARALLEL to what make SOUL FLOURISH
Plato
Theoretical and Practical Science: Distinction
Aristotle
Ethics and Politics
Aristotle
Aims of Theoretical science
Truth
End goal of Practical ones
Good
End goal of life (ARISTOTLE)
Happiness
Every function from a human person is a function of the purpose
Telos
All human activities aim at some good
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 2:2
Now such a thing as happiness above all else
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 2:7
End goal is acquiring pleasure (eat, drink)
Hedonism
Epicurus
Clinging on Material wealth, matter is what makes us attain happiness
Materialism
Democritus
Leucippus
Tiny indivisible units in the world or seed
Atomos
One must learn to distance and be apathetic/apathy
Stoicism