Human Nature

Human nature

Grade:

B

Language:

English

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Country:

Taiwan

Our life is full of problems. Reasoning is a usual way to response to problems which we

concern about. We reason in response to everyday problems. For instance, asked by

friends to go out dinner at a time when we have planned something else, we must decide

which one is more important for us at that moment of time, and whether to decline or to

adjust our schedule. Reasoning appropriate to problems like this has often been called

practical. Practical reasons might be said to be reasons for acting, and it is in some sense

point toward action. Practical reasoning has been much discussed by philosophers, and it

is catalogued under Moral Philosophy. For Aristotle’s moral philosophy, as it appears in his

document now called the Nicomachean ethics, reflects his teleological (goal-oriented)

metaphyics. In the Nicomachean ethics, where Aristotle considers a science of doing, and

acting in certain way to seek rational ends. The notion of Goal, or Purpose, is the principal

one in his moral theory.

Aristotle noted that every act is performed for some purpose, which he defined as the

"good" of that act, the end at which the activity aims. We perform an act because we find

its purpose to be worthwhile. Either the totality of our acts is an infinitely circular series:

Every morning we get up in order to eat breakfast, we eat breakfast in order to go to

work, we got to work in order to get money, we get money so we can buy food in order to

be able to eat breakfast, etc., etc., etc., in which case life would be a pretty meaningless

endeavor because this is just bunch of repeated and vain activities practicing if without a

purpose. Or there is some ultimate good toward which the purpose of all acts are

directed. If there is such a good, we should try to come to know it so that we can adjust

all our acts toward it in order to avoid that saddest of all tragedies – the wasted and vain

life

According to Aristotle, there is general verbal agreement that the end toward which all

human acts are directed is happiness; therefore, happiness is the human good since we

seek happiness for its own sake, not for the sake of something else. In a sense, realizing

the end of attaining happiness is an activity of making, and it’s the activity aims to make a

certain kind of man, living in a certain kind of society. Happiness might be explained as the