Aristotle changes the focus of Plato's search. How is Aristotle's focus on what the "good life" is different from Plato's? What does Aristotle think the goal of life is and how does he support that claim? Give one example or citation from the text to support you thinking.
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Aristotle seems more practical than Plato; just thinking about what is right or just will not make you happy unless you carry out the action in order to acheive it. I think that Aristotle is aiming for happiness in life: from the packet page 31-32. "Happiness needs a complete life. For life inclused many reversals of fortune, good and bad, and the most prosperous peron may fall into a terrible disaster in old age,..... someone has suffered these sorts of misfortunes and comes to a miserable end, no one counts him happy."
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Aristotle believes that every goal someone accomplishes ends up being for the good of you or someone else and you. Also, Aristotle believed that everyone was always ends driven and that they were always thinking about the result or upcoming events and not what was in process or in the present. Plato believed that everything was for the good of oneself and that a person never thought about the consequences, especially the unjust man. Aristotle, on page 22, said "Our central move in this reasoning is to claim that our highest goal in life is happiness."
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Both philosiphers beleive the "good life" is being able to have total virtue and therefore be happy. Both agree the virtue will be displayed when all desires are relinquished but have conflicting viewpoints on how happiness is obtained. Plato beleived perfect love and lack of desire lead to happiness. Aristotle beleived by obtaining the highest good happiness would directly follow becuase humans find solcae in gaining inteligence, etc...
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Aristotle focuses more on finding virtue, and once this is found happiness will be waiting. This goal of happiness is what drives society to be good. While Platonist do not think about consequence, and rather for their own selfish glory. Aristotle makes reference to to the virtue of moral virtue which is the standard of happiness.
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Aristotle has a diffrent way of thinking he focuses more on the happiness in life rather than being all beusness.
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Plato relies on a truth and finding what is good and bad in life, Aristotle doesn't see that as a complete goal though, and goes a step further. He says that happiness is what we should seek. He says on page 28 at the end of the page that "Happiness, then, is apparently something complete and self-sufficient, since it is the end of the things pursued in action." Happiness is the final goal in every process we go through in life, so it is not the good and bad that we should be looking for, it is the happiness.
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