post one and two make up.

POST ONE: Explain Aristotle's theory of ethics as presented in the websites above. And what is his view on happiness and its relationship to ethics? Finally, what makes you happy in this life and what do your think Aristotle would say about that? Be sure to substantiate your work with ideas from Aristotle's writings. I need to see that you read the material. I would write this post in three parts: Aristotle's theory; what makes you happy?; Aristotle's critique.

Aristotle is what I think when I think philosophy I don’t know why but whenever anyone talks about philosophy his name always seem to be the name that stands out. He was intensely interested in the relationship between history and poetry; he thinks that history may deal with facts, but poetry deals with truth. Aristotle was the one who introduced the ideal of happiness as a human goal to the western philosophers. He believed it was a result of rational activity and not a pursuit of pleasure. I like how Aristotle is all about happiness he wants everyone to be happy and no one to be harmed in the way.

Aristotle believed on sciences, in especially logic and observation. He was the author that came up it biology and develop all sorts of theory on every thing. He was really smart and knew a lot. He was known to write dialogues which was good because we were able to really see his way of thinking.

Aristotle view on relationships I think is basically you scratch my back ill scratch yours. To Aristotle everything on this earth has its own virtue, meaning that if it performs the way it is supposed to by its nature then it was virtuous. He believed every human has a purpose. I think Aristotle seemed like a really good philosopher I like his way of thinking on all of his ethics and views on happiness and relationships. He seem to be a very likable guys with great theory and super intelligent


[POST TWO: How does Epicurus define an ethical person? Compare and contrast his moral theory with that of Epicurus understanding of ethics. In order to complete this post I would make sure to outline in depth each theorist's position and then compare and contrast them. Again, write this post as three parts: Epicurus; Epictetus; compare/contrast section.]

Epicurus was a Greek thinker, he is known for being the first philosopher to advocate a like in search of pleasure know as hedonism. His main goal was know to be life free of pain. He though you should obtain peace of mind, ataraxia which is the highest pleasure. He believes we look for pleasure without thinking about what we like to do that might give us the pleasure.

His theory hedonistic paradox is that if you look for pleasure, chances are you wont find it. He says for example people who are looking for people to love can attest to this theory. Ge also believes pleasure come to you when you are in the middle of something else and rarely when you are looking for it. But most important in order to feel pleaser you must care or else you will more then likely never achieve feeling pleasure.

Epicurus believed that there are many things in life other than physical pleasures that can bring us happiness and there is nothing in utilitarianism that says we have to define pleasure and happiness as mere gratification or physical desires. I theory very interesting, I think I would have to agree with him many things bring us happiness not always pleasure because we don’t do everything in our life to pleasure are selfish because I think this would make us selfish I mean are intention are to bring pleasure and happiness but I don’t think they always have to be hand in hand