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Preparatory Elements: My purpose is to complete this assignment, but most importantly, to learn and go into depth of the way I view the world. The audience I would share my view with are the professor and the grader(s) of this assignment. Likewise, if this assignment is shared with my classmates, my audience would be the people that are in natural resources. However, they may or may not have the same world view as me. The voice of this assignment will be in first person as this is my opinion and perception of how I view the world. Since this assignment is about my perception, I think the voice would be conversational because the audience can either relate or formulate questions based on my view points. Personal Formative Background: Growing …show more content…

I have always loved nature and wanted to somehow be involved with natural resources. As soon as I learned that Iowa State had an NREM program (the only one in the state of Iowa), I was eager to start my journey. Iowa State has held multiple opportunities for me to visit national parks one including Yellowstone, but I didn’t have the funds. However, I think those opportunities are what shape the students in the NREM department. My time at Iowa State aided my understanding of natural resources, it’s “founding fathers”, and has helped me determine where I need to be in …show more content…

Aristotle believes that humans will find the most enjoyment out of their reasoning based on their “true nature” (Shields, 2015). This one belief, agrees with how I view ideas morally. People will find enjoyment in what others may not and vice versa. My enjoyment is nature and preserving the land for future generations and this based on my “true nature.” Though, I may think preserving the land is good, not many others may think that because their definition of good may be different. Based on Shields (2015), Aristotle believes that there is no universal idea of “the good”. Like I mentioned above, that we are put her for a purpose that and live within nature, humans have a pre-defined purpose as believed by

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USC Rossier School of Education Personal Statement Myberson Saint-Pierre I remember as if it were yesterday. It was late August and the school year was roughly two-weeks in session. Everyone in Ohio State, 6th grade homeroom, was sitting down as Mr. Kankam and I passed out the results of the SRI and SMI tests that the students took on the first two days of school. The scholars were very despondent as they read their results.

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When it comes to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, I believe that he has found a common thread in humanity in the fact that humans strive for the moderate in living virtuously. However, I would argue that the thread is varied enough to have no true worth in discerning the aspects of humanity. People have too different moralities and goals. Because Aristotle allows for these “local variations”, as Martha Nussbaum later terms in her defense of Aristotle, he is acknowledging that there cannot be an overarching analysis of humanity.

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Through compilation of practical wisdom and The Doctrine of Mean, and voluntary or involuntary actions, in Aristotle’s view human beings can find the goodness of any action, and therefore find the correct virtue or response of a circumstance. Though Aristotle made his arguments in ancient times we as modern human beings can use his ideas on ethics as a guide post to find the morally correct action. Just as we use ancient ideas of government, such as democracy. We today have adapted democracy from what ancient Greeks used, we can adapt Aristotle’s ideas to fit into modern

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Aristotle believed that when you live a virtuous life, you live a “eudemonistic” one. Keep in mind that at the time philosophers assumed that humans have a fixed nature, or an essence. Also that we thrive by adhering to our essence and that non-virtuous actions go against our human essence. He described this in terms of what he called “proper functioning”. This means that “everything has a function and it, say x, is good so long as x fulfills its function and bad if x does not.”

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