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2. 1. Introduction
2. Types of “Ends”
3. Eudaimonia
4. Function of Human Beings
5. Virtue as the “Golden mean”
6. Deliberation and choice
7. Contemplation

3. INTRODUCTIO
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4. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
is
The Greek root “telos” means
“end,” “goal,” or “purpose.”
TELEOLOGICAL.

5. “Every art and every inquiry,
every action and every choice,
seems to aim at some good;
whence the good has rightly
been defined as that at which
all things aim.”
- Aristotle

6. HAPPINESS

7. HAPPINES
S
=
A person who lives a virtuous life will have a better chance at attaining happiness
than one who lives without virtue.

8. TYPES OF
“ENDS”

9. ALL ACTIONS
AIM TOWARD AN
END

10. TWO MAJOR KINDS OF
ENDS:
 Instrumental Ends
 Intrinsic Ends

11. INSTRUMENTAL END
INTRINSIC END
acts that are done as means for other ends.
acts that are done for their own sake.

12. SEMINARIA
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PRIEST
INSTRUMENTA
L ENDS
INTRINSIC
END

13. EUDAIMONIA

14. Aristotle explicates that the doctor’s art targets at
health, and shipbuilder’s ability targets at safe trip. But
these kind of ends have further end or good in view.
But there must be some end that is ULTIMATE. Men
agree that this good is

15. FORMATOR
SEMINARIA
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OPRIEST
=•••
“ HAPPINESS ”

16. A right action
is
one that promotes

17. A wrong
action is
one that is opposed to the attainment of

18. THE ULTIMATE GOOD IS
HAPPINES
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19. FUNCTION OF
HUMAN
BEINGS

20. Analyzing the human nature, ARISTOTLE
suggests that we must discover its unique activity,
saying, that our human end “is not merely life.” If
this is the case, we don’t have any difference with
plants according to Aristotle. He said that he wants
what is peculiar to human beings. Then he came
to an idea that there is life of sensation but then
again, if this is the case, we have no difference
with animals. So, he came up with the idea that
human beings have soul that have in common
with the soul of both plants and animals.

21. Rational part
Irrational
components
Vegetative
component
Appetitive
component
1
Irrational part

22. “As at the Olympic games it is not the finest and
the strongest people who are crowned, but they
who enter the lists, for out of these the prize-
men are selected; so too in life, of the honorable
and good, it is they who act who rightly win the
prizes.”

23. VIRTUE AS THE
GOLDEN
MEAN

24. aristotle
defines virtue as a
DISPOSITION

25. He said that
is something we have to
develop. For instance, we are
not born with COURAGE. So
you develop this by disposing
yourself by doing
COURAGEOUS ACTS.
Virtue

26. “The Golden
Mean”

27. EXTREME EXTREME
THE GOLDEN MEAN
“EUDAIMONIA”

28. DELIBERATION
CHOICE
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29. Rational part
Irrational
components
Vegetative
component
Appetitive
component
1
Irrational part

30. Rational part
TWO KINDS OF
REASONING:1.) THEORETICAL
2.) PRACTICAL
It gives us knowledge of fixed principles or Philosophical wisdom.
It gives us a rational guide to our moral action under the particular
circumstances in which we find ourselves.

31. VOLUNTARY ACTS
INVOLUNTARY ACTS

32. VOLUNTARY ACTSINVOLUNTARY ACTS
PRINCIPLE
DISTINCTION
1. a person is not responsible of his
action they are
2. done out of ignorance of
particular circumstances
3. done as a result of external
compulsion or done to avoid a
greater evil.
Voluntary acts are those which a person is
responsible for his actions because none
of the qualities of involuntary act is in
force.

33. CONTEMPLATIO
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Contemplation
Activity!
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