{"id":2518,"date":"2018-10-13T01:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T08:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2018-10-13T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T09:41:07","slug":"rank-talk-write-the-nicomachean-ethics-of-aristotle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/2018\/10\/13\/rank-talk-write-the-nicomachean-ethics-of-aristotle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rank, Talk, Write – The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philosophy has always been something I found fascinating. I, therefore, took the time to read the work of one of the great scholars of our time. The great Aristotle. In the writings of The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle<\/em>, he puts forth the arguments for several critical areas of our life that we ought to consider.\u00a0 I have documented the context of the work in the same way they are outlined in his writing as a logical progression of ethics.<\/p>\n

Book 1: On happiness<\/p>\n

Book 11, 111, IV on Moral Virtues<\/p>\n

Book III: Free will, Choice and responsibility;<\/p>\n

Book V; On Justice<\/p>\n

Book VI; on Intellectual Virtues<\/p>\n

Book VII; on Incontinece or weakness of the will & The First discussion on Pleasure;<\/p>\n

Book VIII & IX on friendship<\/p>\n

Book X The second discussion of Pleasure<\/p>\n

Book X ON the Contemplative and the political Life<\/p>\n

Based on the nature of ethics it will take time to go through all and so I will seek to address some of the elements of the first book. In Book I, he writes about happiness. This is defined as the \u201cgood\u201d<\/strong> we seek. In some other writing is defined as the \u201cgreater good\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The good is argued as <\/strong>both in the category of substance and in that of quality and in that of relation. Further, since ‘good’ has as many senses as ‘being’ (for it is predicated both in the category of substance, as of God and of reason, and in quality, i.e. of the virtues, and in quantity, i.e. of that which is moderate, and in relation, i.e. of the useful, and in time, i.e. of the right opportunity, and in place, i.e. of the right locality and the like\u201d. (Aristotle, & Ross, W. D. (2000). p.4)<\/p>\n

He notes that in every art and inquiry, and similar action and pursuit, is about reaching for some good. It is against this good we all aim. Whatever the outcome, some differences are found among the ends. It is the end driven by actions, or nature of the products that are produced by the activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many\u037e the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity\u00ad as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way, other arts fall under yet others\u00ad in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends\u037e for it is for the sake of the former than the latter are pursued. It makes no difference whether the activities themselves are the ends of the actions, or something else apart from the activities, as in the case of the sciences just mentioned\u201d (Aristotle, & Ross, W. D. (2000). p.1). \u201cWhat Aristotle develops here is not a subjective but an objective concept. There are more elements of this kind in his criticism of katapathos z\u00ean, of life according to the passions, and in the formulas katalogon z\u00ean(to live according to reason, or live reasonably) and orthoslogos (correct reason)\u201d (Hoffe \u00a0Otfried, 2010, p.5).<\/p>\n

There is a passion that we seek after. This greater good is translated into something different for all of us. So, the purpose and the outcome is always aligned. One of the take away from this work is that there is always an underline motive, or desire, a passion that provides the happiness we seek in this life. So, while we seek to provide additional reasoning as to why we are engaged in this pursuit, we must ask the questions \u2013 what latter is acted upon by the subordinate in our quest to be leaders?<\/p>\n

As leaders, the quest that we are on is really to seek the greater good of life. What does this greater good look like within your context?<\/p>\n

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Reference<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Aristotle. & Smith, J. A. & Chase, D. P. (1911).\u00a0The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle<\/em>. London; Dutton<\/p>\n

Aristotle, & Ross, W. D. (2000). Nicomachean Ethics. Raleigh, N.C.: Generic NL Freebook Publisher.
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Ho\u0308ffe, O. (2010). Aristotle\u2019s \u201cNicomachean Ethics.\u201d Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill.
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