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Nicomachean Ethics

Milan Gacanovic
Aristotle Paper
October 8, 2012

Question 1: What is supreme good? Where is it found? Why? How does Aristotle account for the many different opinions and beliefs about the good?

According to Aristotle, the supreme good is happiness; and happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul. In order for something to be the supreme good it needs to have 3 characteristics: it needs to be good in and of itself, it needs to be for its own sake, and it needs to be the supreme good for the entire community. First of all, the supreme good needs to be good in and of itself because something can not be the supreme good if you are doing it to accomplish something else. For example, ...

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not be able to run anymore, so then you will have to buy a new car. This cycle will continue to go on forever and ever. This is why the supreme good must be for its own sake. Lastly, the supreme good must be the supreme good for the entire community because if it is not then you are just pleasing yourself. If you are only pleasing yourself, then it is not the SUPREME good, it is just a plain old "good". Moving forward, everyone agreed that happiness is the supreme good; and everyone identified happiness as doing well or living well. "But when it comes to saying in what happiness consists, opinions differ, and the account given by the generality of mankind is not at all like that of the wise." (Aristotle, pg 7) Since there are different opinions of what happiness consists of, Aristotle categorizes happiness into 3 groups of people and states their goals. By goals he means what they need in order to achieve happiness. The first group that Aristotle mentions is the vulgar masses. ...

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