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An Exploration In Ethics

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...with the Sophists of the Greek World that emanated during the fifth century (Honderich, 1995). They were the first thinkers to raise points about moral conduct. In Nichomachean Ethics, for example, Aristotle asserts that the ultimate end to all human action is happiness (1995). Aristotle says: "To judge from the lives that men lead, most men, and men of the most vulgar type, seem (not without some ground) to identify the good, or happiness, with pleasure; which is the reason why they love the life of enjoyment. For there are, we may say, three prominent types of life- that just mentioned, the political, and thirdly the contemplative" life" (Aristotle, 2000, Book I, Ch. 5). Here, Aristotle divides life into types. Such a typology is applicable to any era. Certainly today there is ordinary life and political life. One can see the difference in lives between politicians–whose dirty laundry is aired everyday–versus private citizens. There is the contemplative life, like Aristotle's, and while today it is thought that the society is dumbed-down to an extent, it is true that modern...

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