Aristotle 2
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- States that keep you from developing virutes.
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1. Brusthness: not fully animals, pshychopath. no sense of morality. NO hope in accomplishing virtues
2. Badness: having bad habits, it is hard to develop virtues because they might not think they're doing anything wrong.
3. Lack of self-control: notice's there is a problem and hopes to develop virtues. - Activities
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1. Compulosory (you have to eat) or optional compulsory
2. Immanant: results that remain within you (knowledge) or transitive:results you produce or make
3. Intrinsic: Something you do for fun. or extrinsic: something you do for a result - Activity needed to maintain health
- absolutly compulsory:immanent results extrinsic to the activity.
- Subsistence for work
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optional compulsory
transitive results, extrinsic to the activity. - leisure work
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optional compulsory
immanant results
extrisinc to the activity - Play
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optinal compulsory
immanant results
intrinsic to the activity - Characteristics of living thing
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1. Growth
2. Reproduction
3. Self-movement
4. Sensation
5. Desire
6. Intellect - Passive Mind
- the potentiality of ideas
- Active mind
- the ability to compare things
- Happiness
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fufillment, not an obective state, everybody has it at a general level however their can be some differences at what makes a certain person happier than an other, Happiness is NOT a feeling,
Supremme good, ultimate goal of everything. Everything you do is for a purpose and unless there is one purpose for everthing that would go on forever, the purpose for evertying is to be happy. - Virtue
- A character trait that allows people to function to their full potentiality.
- habit
- tendancy to act in order to fulfil potential
- Soul (Psyche)
- what makes you what you are. the soul is the substantial form of human beings, it actualities are possesing a life and possesing organs.
- Four Causes to understand anything
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1. Matter: What is it made of?
2. Formal: what is its form?
3. Efficient: where did it come from?
4. Final: what is its purpose or function - Prime matter:
- pure potentiality for change
- Substantial Form
- That which makes a thing the kind of thing it is
- Substance:
- something that exits in itslef
- Attribute
- a property of substance that inheres in it and cannot exist appart
- Potentiality:
- A being has a potential for something if it can be (or do) something, but is not presently being (or doing) it.
- Actuality
- a being is transformed from potentiality to actuality whne it begins to be (or do) that which it was acpable of being (or doin)