Term Papers on Human Nature

Term Paper Title	Human Nature
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Human Nature

                                    ESSAY CATEGORY: Philosophy



              Human nature

              Grade:
                      B
              Language:
                      English
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              Country:
                      Taiwan

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                                                                              11/6/96

                Our life is full of problems. Reasoning is a usual way to response to problems which we
                concern about. We reason in response to everyday problems. For instance, asked by
                friends to go out dinner at a time when we have planned something else, we must decide
                which one is more important for us at that moment of time, and whether to decline or to
                adjust our schedule. Reasoning appropriate to problems like this has often been called
                practical. Practical reasons might be said to be reasons for acting, and it is in some sense
                point toward action. Practical reasoning has been much discussed by philosophers, and it
                is catalogued under Moral Philosophy. For Aristotle’s moral philosophy, as it appears in his
                document now called the Nicomachean ethics, reflects his teleological (goal-oriented)
                metaphyics. In the Nicomachean ethics, where Aristotle considers a science of doing, and
                acting in certain way to seek rational ends. The notion of Goal, or Purpose, is the principal
                one in his moral theory.
                Aristotle noted that every act is performed for some purpose, which he defined as the
                "good" of that act, the end at which the activity aims. We perform an act because we find
                its purpose to be worthwhile. Either the totality of our acts is an infinitely circular series:
                Every morning we get up in order to eat breakfast, we eat breakfast in order to go to
                work, we got to work in order to get money, we get money so we can buy food in order to
                be able to eat breakfast, etc., etc., etc., in which case life would be a pretty meaningless
                endeavor because this is just bunch of repeated and vain activities practicing if without a
                purpose. Or there is some ultimate good toward which the purpose of all acts are
                directed. If there is such a good, we should try to come to know it so that we can adjust
                all our acts toward it in order to avoid that saddest of all tragedies – the wasted and vain
                life
                According to Aristotle, there is general verbal agreement that the end toward which all
                human acts are directed is happiness; therefore, happiness is the human good since we
                seek happiness for its own sake, not for the sake of something else. In a sense, realizing
                the end of attaining happiness is an activity of making, and it’s the activity aims to make a
                certain kind of man, living in a certain kind of society. Happiness might be explained as the
                fruition of a man’s way of life, in the truly human aspect of that way of life. The good of
                each thing is its own function; thus, vision is the good of the eye and walking is the good
                of the foot. As Aristotle said in the Nicomachean ethics, "Every art and every inquiry, and
                similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the
                good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim." (11) However, unless
                w...

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