Aristotle sketched his philosophy of Virtue Ethics in his book Nichomachean Ethics. Born in Thrace in 384 BC, Aristotle was sent to Athens at seventeen to complete his education at Plato’s Academy. He remained at the Academy for twenty years, where he established a slightly unfriendly rapport with his teacher. This was due to their conflicting views and dissimilar ways and means of cognitive reasoning.
However, although the two men’s views were not always correct, both focused their morals on mediators rather than doings, and both think on the idea of a human appeal, questioning how one can be a well improved person. In fact, Aristotle once said: “For we are enquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since
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Aristotle’s philosophies about the four reasons and the final basis. Plato and Aristotle decided that the drive of humanity was the accomplishing something prosperous, and this is known as Eudaimonia. When a person has attained Eudaimonia they will be completely satisfied with their lives and they will act ethically because they want to. He cited to Eudaimonia as “an end in itself”. Aristotle claims that this telos can only be attained through the use of a purpose, since the ‘ergon’ (function) of cause in practice is a plus. Thus, through the run through of arête’s cause turn into a motion of the soul, ultimately leads to Eudaimonia. Therefore one needs to be coherent to be Eudaimonia. Both Plato and Aristotle also thought that if you act on behalf of morality then your life expectancy would go well. They said that if asset did not pay off in self-centered terms then the virtue had deceitful value; thus, not like Christianity, Virtue Integrity does not demand unselfishness. In fact, a Eudaimonia is inevitably happy. However, becoming Eudaimonia and attaining joy for being moral was not seen as an incentive, but rather just a