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  • Essay / Aristotle's point of view - 552

    Aristotle's point of viewIs life really a question of "money", "cash", "whores", who has the biggest chain in gold or who drives the shiniest or fastest car, who sells the most albums or who has the most respect? Aristotle challenges views similar to those held and shown by rap artists such as Jay-Z and Notorious BIG, observing that everything in the universe, including humans, has a telos, or purpose in life. life. It asserts that the goal of human life is to achieve happiness or eudemonia. I believe that Aristotle is absolutely correct in his reasoning about the purpose of human nature. He even explains how happiness is different for each person, and each type of person has a different idea of ​​eudaimonia. He then goes on to explain that a person should do all things in moderation, not going to excess but doing just enough. This idea, called "the golden mean of moderation", formed the backbone of Aristotle's idea of ​​the human telos, because it concluded that living a virtuous life must be the same for all because of the way people human beings are constructed. of human beings is happiness, and that we achieve happiness when we fulfill our function. It is therefore necessary to determine what our function is. The function of a thing, or its telos, is what it alone can do, or what it does best. Just as the function of the eye is to see, Aristotle declared that the human being was a "rational animal" whose function...