Aristotle's Virtue Ethics (HD)

[ccslai]

spritesevenup must be proud to have an A* in an obvious useless course/subject

[spritesevenup]

@ccslai very much so :)

[FNsMadman]

I don't go to school and learn so I can get a job. It would be nice to have a career in my field of study, but I also enjoy learning because I am a human being. Everything you wrote past that point was useless.

[spritesevenup]

@FNsMadman thanks for that interesting piece of information. don't like it? leave. thanks.

[nigelharman18]

@FNsMadman you do realise these are not the ideas of the person making the video but of a man who died many thousands of years ago - Aristotle.

[tibg95]

im sorry but you have misunderstood the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

[spritesevenup]

@tibg95 i wrote this in my exam and came out with an A*

[tibg95]

@spritesevenup nice good for you. doesnt change the fact that you got the two mixed up.

[roughryder5]

good job. if only teachers/professors would teach like this.

[gramochroise]

Hi, Just wanted to thank your for his video. Its great. I'm going to share the link with my A Level students. I also wish more videos like this existed.

Thanks,

[yoyuepz]

@gramochroise if all UK students learned about Artisotle, then I do believe UK would be a different place. In Italy, Bulgaria they learn this from primary school......... shame on uk education.

[LawMX]

that was very helpful! Thanks!

[codeth20]

I wish more of these existed. Do one for Kant and Mill!

[zoomlebronboi23]

holy shit this actually helped so much on my project

thanks lol

[TheIrregularVerb]

I'm sorry, but you have completely misinterpreted the meaning of  'eudaimonia' ..

[spritesevenup]

@TheIrregularVerb ah well, sorry - this is how we are expected to understand it at a-level.

[TheIrregularVerb]

@spritesevenup oooh, ouch. They really don't tell you the truth then.. Inbox me if you want to get to know the real truth :P

[LiquidPromotionz]

@TheIrregularVerb Hardly, eudaimonia is simply human flourishing and he said that the basis of this is happiness, he hasn't 'misinterpreted' it you fool, go read a text book.

[spritesevenup]

@LiquidPromotionz thank you :) yeah eudaimonia means human flourishing, but we often understand it nowadays as being the equivalent of happiness.

[TheIrregularVerb]

@spritesevenup I never meant to be rude! :O I am sorry, if I was.

[spritesevenup]

@TheIrregularVerb it's ok :) 

[TheIrregularVerb]

@LiquidPromotionz "Go read a text book"? Read Aristotle! The basis of human flourishing is not happiness, but to do what is in ones nature. And that, he said, is rationality, to reason, quesiton, and challenge. Happiness or eudaimonia, the fulfilment and flourishing, follows as a consequence of acting according to one's nature, in our case, to human nature. I already pointed out that, to Aristotle, that was reason. A textbook.. tsktsk..

[LiquidPromotionz]

@TheIrregularVerb I think I know what I am talking about, I study philosophy at degree level you fool. In order for one to reach eudaimonia, we have to be a virtuous person and part of being virtuous is to promote a degree of happiness so shut the fuck up!

[TheIrregularVerb]

@LiquidPromotionz So do I, and ad hominem is not very academic of you. Now, you are saying an entirely different thing. First you said "that the basis of flourishing (eudaimonia) is happiness". Now you are saying that, in order to reach eudaimonia, we have to promote happiness. Please, be more clear. Also, virtue ethics are teleological, however, not wrt happiness, but fulfiling one's potential. Happiness in our language does not describe what Aristotle's happiness (eudaimonia) described.

[LiquidPromotionz]

@TheIrregularVerb I am not promoting an ad-hoc argument at all, I stated that happiness was the basis for eudaimonia and truthfully it is, alongside other virtues, I never said that happiness was the most essential counter-part within eudaimonia. However, happiness is an important factor within the summum bonum and reaching enlightenment.

[TheIrregularVerb]

@LiquidPromotionz Now we are on the same page again. But I disagree. Aristotle never stated the basis of eudaimonia to have been happiness, at least not in the modern sense. That is merely the result of a lack of a better word. The problem lies within the concept of happiness as we use it. Kant called happiness "the principle of self-love in disguise". In using the term happiness, we falsely apply a hedonistic teint to Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, which falsifies. Wouldn't you agree?

[LiquidPromotionz]

@TheIrregularVerb Yes, in modern day ethics, we believe happiness to be something hedonistic indeed because that's what humans believe happiness to be, many are unfamiliar with Aristotelian viewpoints of eudaimonia and happiness and therefore go by what they believe happiness to be as opposed to what the meaning of the term actually entails.

[TheIrregularVerb]

@LiquidPromotionz But then we have to agree that, in order to be correctly didactic, we cannot let the basis of eudaimonia be 'happiness'. It needs to be further explained as to not cause misinterpretation. We can see the same mistakes with words like 'freedom' or 'justice'. For example: the freedom that Kant described, was not the libertarian freedom, but rather the transcendental freedom of the will. However, it is widely being misinterpreted as the former, possibly from mistranslation too?

[LiquidPromotionz]

@TheIrregularVerb No we cannot, I am not trying to get at that, happiness though is important in human flourishing as explained previously. Kant's viewpoints are subject to a very few, a minority of the populace and so many believe freedom to be without pre-determined actions and complete morally responsibility. People form these judgement's because they can relate them to society and within society we adopt a very similar viewpoint to Libertarianism. Hence the misinterpretation.

[sGreatly]

whats the first audio track played ? :D

[MrDanielHen]

So living by these virtues with the Golden Mean in mind is what will bring us the ultimate aim: happiness?

[spritesevenup]

@MrDanielHen Yup and will help us to be moral individuals.

[MrDanielHen]

What is your presentation software?

[spritesevenup]

@MrDanielHen iMovie

[lucep123]

Not even kidding this is like the best video in terms of content and the graphics are amazing thanks!!

[spritesevenup]

@lucep123 Awww thank you so much :D

[ajitam]

what is the music in this video please? :)

[spritesevenup]

@ajitam Hey :)

The first instrumental is just a song from iMovie. The second song is the TV show 'Happy Days' theme song and the last song is the live version of Amy Lee's 'Good Enough'

[taylorlangi]

thanks!! it really helped me understand.... everything totally makes sense now (;

[spritesevenup]

@taylorlangi aw no problem :) glad it helped you