Aristotle Nicomachean Decision Making

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What are good decisions, and how do we make them? In regards of Aristotle the process of good decision-making seems is Wish → Deliberation → Decision. One must want a positive result, set up the means in which he/she are willing to take to obtain the result, and then decide to act on those means. Although this process could be interpreted differently because of perspective, a good decision is typically in the eyes of society. In “Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross”, Aristotle attempts to clarify his thoughts on this fundamental process of good decisions making and holding to it. Within the process established by Aristotle, wish is in regards to an end result. Just because you wish for something, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen. Wishes must be logical and positive in a person’s perspective. Something positive to one person may not be positive to another. Therefore to help constitute those thoughts, some think wish is for the good, or for the apparent good. Those who say that good is an object of wish must consider the consequence of a man who does not choose proper wishes. In Book 3; Chapter 4 Aristotle says, “Now those who say that the …show more content…

The end cannot be subject of deliberation, but only the means, nor can the particular facts be subjects of it. Whether it is s’more’s or has been properly made as it should; are matters of perception. Choice is determinate, since it is what has been decided upon as a result of deliberation. Everyone ceases to inquire how he/she is to act when he/she has brought the moving principle back to them self and to the ruling part of them self; for this is what he chooses. The object of choice being one of the things in our own power which is desired after deliberation, choices will be deliberate desire of things in our own power; for when we have decided as a result of

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