Virtue In Greek Philosophy

In Greek philosophy, the notion of arête, virtue or excellence applies to anything that derives it from its characteristic use on the existence of a thing and whatever disposition enables it to. The ancient Greek culture has recognized a conventional set of virtues, which the Greeks asserted the virtue for pride. They included the notion of courage itself, justice, temperance and wisdom incorporated into daily Greek life. Human virtue accordingly, is whatever enables human beings to live the best possible life according to what these virtues dictate or in other words, it is simply to be happy.

Ethics is the study of morality. For most history, it has been occupied with the discernment of moral questions in aspect such as what right or wrong

Political tensions prevail in Athens due to invasions, but as Aristotle’s philosophy began to weaken, there was a fusion of cultures in the area and philosophies were being dispersed into various places, thus the emergence of various schools of thought. New philosophical groups and movements emerged in aim to achieve Ataraxia or the state of tranquility, freedom, peace and a state of mind. They introduce philosophy as a way of life and as a way to achieve a specific human condition for

The human self consists of the cognitive element which involves areas of knowing, reasoning and its thinking capacity. The affective element which contains the feeling, emotional side and the conative element, the desiring, striving, and willing side. Plato’s interpretation of the mind was strongly influenced by medieval thinkers such as Plotinus and Augustine. While Descartes notion of the mind permeated through modern thinking. Through most of the middle ages, philosophy had been dominated by religious assumptions, now the scientific explanation of the world; the seventeenth century was a transitional age. New scientific approaches appeared to be in conflict with the traditional religious world. Descartes is was recognized to be a provisional skeptic, thus he declared that he would not accept anything as true unless it was to be demonstrated beyond doubt, as a result he began to adopt a program of systematic doubt. He emerges with the conviction wherein the self is what exists. Known for his famous saying “cogito ergo sum”, I think therefore, I am. Descartes found the existence of at least one mind, and that is his own, in beyond doubt. Descartes claimed there where two substances in which he made a distinction between them. Mind and matter, Mind is immaterial and characterized by thinking. Because it is