Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

1. Book 1

   • human beings special characteristic
     • logos
       • rational faculty of speech and reason
   • three types of science
     • theoretical
       • math
       • physics
       • Metaphysics
       • highest form of knowledge, uses pure logos
         • most precise
     • productive
       • concerned with creating a product
     • practical
       • ethics
       • politics
         • use of reason for organization of life itself
   • teleology
     • study of purpose
     • tilos= goal
   • the good
     • happiness
       • all actions towards good
         • definitions
           • common run of people: pleasure
             • no, too simple
           • cultivated: honor
             • dependent on others
           • contemplation
             • yes, happiness of mind

2. Book 2

   • strength
     • characteristic
     • destroyed by excess or deficency
   • doctrine of the mean
   • become just through just actions
   • Requirements to become just
     • intent
     • choice
     • Character

3. Book 3

   • ignorance
     • ignorance of the particulars is involuntary and thus not blamable
     • lack of knowledge on broad things are morally wrong
   • choice
     • deliberation
       • comes before choice, same end goal
     • wish
       • choice only focuses on what is possible

4. Book 4

   • anger
     • apathetic
     • short tempered
     • GENTLENESS
   • fear
     • recklessness
       • courage
         • cowardice

5. Book 5

   • complete justice
     • lawful
       • highest of virtues
         • how relates to larger society
   • partial justice
     • fairness in distribution
       • goods are distributed equal to ones merits
     • in rectification
       • restoring equilibrium

6. Book 7

   • Moral strength
   • moral weakness
     • avoid ^, vice, brutishness