Reflection 14

Aristotle uses the Nichomean Ethics to describe what a human being must do in order to be good, happy. Another word Aristotle uses to describe happiness is “eudaimonia”. He states that the sufficient amounts of happiness itself, meaning you don’t need any other good. Aristotle describes the idea of excellent functioning is the actual distinctive function of whatever we are referring to. Humans must be happy, us as human beings must reason everything we do and reason excellently. To go along with being a virtuous person they must have external goods such as money, friends, and power; and have internal goods such as a peace of mind and good physical health. For a person to be morally virtuous, they must avoid the amount of excess of too much and too little. Aristotle focuses on mainly three of the five cardinal moral virtues courage, temperance, and justice. Which simply says to do well with regards to others, increase pleasure and avoid pain as much as possible, and have confidence in yourself. We must obey the law and treat people fairly. Now regarding the Great Chain of Being, the highest of good for a human being is to believe in God basically. Everything is because of god. We shouldn’t question god as to why this happened or what the purpose of this is. Aristotle basically is very much so similar to the religion of Christianity. With god all things are possible, which I very much so believe. With god being powerful he has the final say of causes and functions of whatever. Then he continues to states the causes of such things as to why we use this, what is the purpose of it. For example with human nature, how human are made into this world. Well basically the egg of a female and the sperm of a male meet together and the sperm fertilizes the egg of eggs. Then the fertilized egg is being nurtured from inside the mother for nine months. After the nine months the birth of a new human being takes place. Which according to Plato, at the time of delivery states that we tend to lose our knowledge because our head is squeezed between the vagina of the mother. Aristotle finally states that the formulation of a subject, being, object or whatever is used to analyze the world. It helps us get a clearer understanding of what is the purpose of it; and why god created this specific thing.