Peer Response 1

Discuss with your peers:

According to virtue ethics, reflecting on the aims and goods essential to human flourishing (if there are any) can help us understand the virtues we need to fulfill those and the vices that would be detrimental, as well as the corresponding kinds of choices and behaviors. Reflect with your peers on what their account reveals about the virtuous life, whether that conflicts with some of the values and choices common in society, etc.

PEERS RESPONSE:

Both then and now, many people find Aristotle's definition of happiness counterintuitive since they consider it rather an emotional state that can - by definition - be temporary or fleeting depending on external circumstances happiness and unhappiness are expressions of the state of the entire organism, of the total personality. "Happiness goes hand in hand with an increase in vitality, the intensity of feeling and thought, and productivity; unhappiness goes hand in hand with a decrease in these capacities and functions|."

Aristotle. (1931). The intellectual virtue of wisdom is inseparably linked to the moral integrity of the affective part of the soul. Only if an individual possesses moral virtue will he choose to live a righteous life. The concept was coined by Aristotle, who defined eudaimonia as the greatest well-being that the human being could achieve, being the ultimate purpose of practical philosophy such as politics and ethics. According to him, the achievement of happiness (the good life, the happy life) is the result of human action, which can be accessed by the practice of ethical virtues (regulating behavior by the rule of the middle ground) and the dianoetic virtues (of which prudence is a part) that lead to wisdom, the ideal state of happiness. I would go in the tank just for the experience but what if we are in the Matrix and this is a simulation already? Conceptions related to the ethics of Aristotle's virtues are present in the theoretical systems of some scholars of contemporary bioethical thinking, intensely underlining such assumptions associating it with: medical excellence, the potential for the exercise of good with a humanitarian sense in the medical act. This has allowed the recognition of elements of continuity in human thought towards this problem and at the same time the overcoming in the form of apprehension of the phenomenon of virtues in the new and different historical conditions.

Jessica

Aristotle. (1931). Nicomachean ethics (Links to an external site.) (W. D. Ross, Trans.). Retrieved from http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

Mill, J. S. (2008). Utilitarianism, In J. Bennett (Ed. & Rev.) Early Modern Philosophy. Retrieved from http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/mill1863.pdf

Nozick, R. (1974). Anarchy, state, and utopia. New York: Basic Books.

Thames, B. (2018). How should one live? Introduction to ethics and moral reasoning (3rd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.