Essays on Aristotle

After reading Aristotle’s view on The Object of Life, I reflected on what his idea of a good life was, and if I found his understanding of this view to be accurate. Aristotle believes that leading a good life means fulfilling one’s purpose in a way that is good by balancing life’s pleasures. He was…

Aristotle (384-322) B.C. defines plot as the ‘soul of tragedy’ and has given much importance on it. ‘The arrangement of incidents’ (Ch.6) is what Aristotle describes the concept of plot. The story is formed through the incidents which serve as the raw material and the way in which these events are structured into a rational…

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira, a small town on the northern coast of Greece. He was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered one of the greatest thinkers to date. He was…

In this essay I will discuss between the meaning of Eudaimonia (happiness) between Plato and Aristotle. The statement from which Plato quotes… “For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, depends upon himself and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are completed…

​Aristotle famously claimed that man is by nature a political animal. (Aristotle 4) He goes on to write, “He who is unable to live in a society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or God.” Furthermore, he claims that the state is a natural phenomenon….

In my assignment I would be digging deep in Aristotle’s political philosophy of democracy and his religion as the world today is largely dependent on democracy as the best political practice but, is the world practicing democracy as prescribe by the author of democracy? Why is there so much misuse of power today by our…

Aristotle was known as an extremely famous person who is well known worldwide. He was known as “The First Teacher” in Arabic philosophy, and “The Philosopher” in the West. Born in 384 B.C., in Stagira, North Greece, Aristotle was birthed by his mother, Phaestis, who was believed to have died when Aristotle was young. His…

Plato and Aristotle’s view of society differs on many points. For Plato, democracy was a de-civilization of society and it proved that men were not able to live up to the standards of the Ideal City. Plato taught that men must be helped in their society by philosophers (called Guardians) who knew what is best…

In Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle discusses the human soul and how it relates virtue and happiness as happiness is a certain sort of activity of the soul in the accord with complete virtue. The human soul is within and allow one to feel, reason and make decisions. The soul is said to be divided into two…

In the book of “The Basic Works of Aristotle”, Aristotle begins Nicomachean Ethics by trying to answer the question of ‘What the ultimate purpose of human existence is?”. He explains that there must be one end of all human actions, because a human action is one which is done on purpose and as an end…