1_ethics

1_ethics

1. Everyone seeks eudaimonia

   • Having good demons
     • Captures the full range of someone living the good life.
       • Many authors translate this as pure happiness

2. the 4 aspects of human nature

   • He said that "man is a plolitical creature"
   • Are
     • We are physical beings
     • We are emotional beings
     • We are social beings
     • We are rational beings

3. Flourishing is a holistic concept

   • This principle plays out in our everyday lives
     • When we see people who are so emotionally stunted that they can´t function well in sociaty
   • The physical is below the social
     • Which is below the rational

4. Virtues

   • Is a trait of characters that enables a person to flourish
     • What links them is phronesis
       • Practical wisdom
     • We becomemor virtous through education and habit
       • Just by training us to have the habits that enable us to flourish
       • After we reach a certain age of maturity, they can start to teach us why is good to have the habits that they´ve been inculcating
       • We become responsible for our own characters
   • Specific virtues
     • Vice, virtue, vice
       • Cowardliness Insensibility Stinginess Self-deprecation Boorishness Quarrelsomness
       • Bravery Temperance Generosity Truthfulness Wittiness Friendliness Spiritedness
       • Rashness Intemperance Extravagance Boastfulness Buffoonery Flattery Boisterousness