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Question on Aristotle and Logic?
So in my reading it states that in Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle tried to find what "good living" meant. "He concluded that good living cannot be defined by a logical system that always works out. Instead, the real world creates situations where different values sometimes com into conflict." What does his conclusion mean? Please make your explanation as simple as possible. I'm having a bit of trouble understanding his works on Logic.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
let me briefly describe aristotle's ethics so you get the idea, then i'll start making more sense (i hope): pretty much, how the heck are we going to lead a good life? to lead a good life we need to try to achieve what he calls "eudaimonia". this is like ultimate happiness; think of a pine cone growing into a tree. the goal for a pine cone is being a tree, just as the goal for human life is eudaimonia. tough thing is, you can't have eudaimonia for long and no matter how hard you try you may not even be able to get it! that pine cone might never actually become a tree, no matter how fertile the soil it was chilling in was. sometimes even if we try to get eudaimonia, we fail and we don't lead the good life we wanted to - and it's not even our fault, the world just does annoying BS like that. so pretty much, we can't just calculate cost/benefits of doing certain things to lead a good life - like an ethical system like utilitarianism might suggest you do. sometimes, sh*t happens and good living escapes us. why does it escape us? because we can't help our bad luck in the world - :-(
