PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nicomachean Ethics, The Happy Life, Deontological Ethics
10 Sep 2016
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Even though aristotle was born in the provinces, not in athens, he was educated in athens. His father, nichomachus, was the person doctor of one of the kings of macedonia. Later, aristotle would become the tutor of alexander the great. Aristotle was a student in plato"s academy, one of the most diligent ones. After plato"s death, he formed a school of his own, the lyceum. Aristotle was a biologist, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher. He was the first professional logician (he invented the syllogisms) He coined that deals with the world beyond the physical world. He is also the first philosopher who thought about the method in philosophy and science. Aristotle has extensive works on zoology and anatomy, as well as rhetoric and ethics. Nichomachean ethics, written around 350 bc is aristotle"s mature work on ethics, of whose authorship we"re certain. It is a part of a bigger work, the second part of which is known as.
