Achieving Happiness Through Virtue: An Ethical Treatise
Book One: Theory of the Good and Happiness
The Supreme End of Man is Happiness
The good is the object of every man’s actions. The supreme end of man is happiness. From the general idea of happiness, the good in every kind of thing is the end in view which does everything else. The inevitable perfection of this research of happiness. Justification of the definition of happiness given above. Happiness is not a random effect, it is both a gift from the gods and the result of our efforts. Virtue is true
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John Stuart Mill on Individual Freedom and Societal Limits
“The acts of an individual may be harmful to others or, if they ignore their welfare without violating any of their constituted rights, deserve due consideration. In this case, the offender may be punished by opinion, but not by law. As soon as one aspect of a person’s behavior affects the interests of others in a prejudicial manner, society has jurisdiction, and it becomes subject to discussion whether the intervention of society is favorable
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Freedom of Opinion and the Truth
Mill emphasizes that freedom of opinion does not destroy the truth because it will prevail. I, being less optimistic, am inclined to defend freedom of opinion so that the truth does not disappear forever. I understand the right’s defense of non-interference of the state in the formation of courts to judge non-political cases, but I think it is more necessary to ensure the independence of the judiciary responsible for resolving political issues from the legislative
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Nietzsche on Truth as Illusion
4 – In this text, Nietzsche argues that “truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that they are”, i.e., using fictions no longer considered as tales. In other words, the truth is a set of “metaphors” that express a “sum of human relations,” because things do not designate, but individuals and their relations with them from certain perspectives, which are already interpretations. Now, what happens is that using such metaphors are just setting as “firm, canonical,
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Plato’s Philosophy: Ethics, Knowledge, and the Ideal State
Judgment of the Soul
The soul will be judged in Hades (the unseen) for its justice or injustice, its temperance and profligacy, its virtues and vices. Just mind the virtue of the soul, no matter if it is a great king or the last of his subjects. Sentences were of four types:
- Awards time.
- Temporal punishments.
- Eternal reward.
- Eternal punishment.
Theory of Knowledge
Objective knowledge is possible and universally valid. Plato distinguishes between
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Philosophy: Unit 1
Philosophical Knowledge
Philosophical Knowledge: Philosophy is knowledge that is produced when people start to reflect critically and rigorously about important questions for all human beings, using both general and abstract terms, with rationally valid arguments, giving reasons that can be understood and argued, which allow us to understand reality better and find our bearings in it. Characteristics of philosophical knowledge:
- Reflexive
- Rational
- Global
- Radical
- Systemic
- Critical