Republic of the Philippines

Northwest Samar State University

San Jorge, Campus

THE GOOD LIFE

and

ARISTOTLE

and

HOW WE ALL ASPIRE FOR A GOOD LIFE

(Written Report)

Submitted By:

Andoyo Deves V.

BSA-2B

Submitted to:

Miss. Keysha Dane Saliwan

2020-2021
 The Good Life

In an Ancient Greece, long before the word "science" has been coined, the need to understand the
world and realty was bound with the need to understand the self and the good life.

According to Plato

The task of understanding the things in the world runs parallel with the job of truly getting into
what will make the soul flourish. In an attempt to understand reality and the external world, man must
seek to understand himself too.

ARISTOTLE

The one who gave a definitive distinction between the "Theoritical" and "Practical Science".

THEORITICAL DISCIPLINES :

 Logic
 Biology
 Physics
 Metaphysics

PRACTICAL ONES :

 Ethics
 Politics
Whereas the "truth" is the aim of the Theoritical science, the "Good" is the end goal of the
practical ones.
One must find the truth about what the Good is before one can even try to locatethat which is
good.

ARISTOTLE AND HOW WE ALL ASPIRE FOR A GOOD LIFE

ARISTOTLE
 The first philosopher who approached the problem of reality from a " scientific" lens as we
know now.
 The first thinker who dabbled into the complex problematization of the end goal of
life"Happiness".
 Embarked on a different approach in figuring out reality.
 Puts everything back to the ground in claiming that this world is all there is to it and that this
world is the only reality we can all access.
 He disagreed with his teacher's position and forwarded the idea that there is no reality over and
above what the senses can perceive.
 It is only the observation of the external world that can truly understand what reality is all
about.
 Change is a process that is inherent in things.
 Extends this analysis from the external world into the province of the human person and
declares that even human being moved according to some end. Every action that emanates
from human person is a fiction of the purpose (telos) that the person has.
 Aspires for an end. This end, we have learned from the previous chapters, is happiness or
human flourishing.
 Claims that happiness is the be all and end all of everything that we do is happiness that
motivates him.
 Human flourishing, a kind of contentment in knowing that one is getting the best out of life. A
kind of feeling that one has maxed out his potentials in the world, that he has attained the crux
of his humanity.

PLATO

 Thought that things in this world are not real and are only copies of the real in the "world o for
forms".
 Change is so perplexing that it can only make sense if there are,
TWO REALITIES
 The world of forms - The entities are only copies of the ideal and the models, and the forms are
the only real entities.
" Things are red in this world because they participate in what it means to be red in the world
of forms.
 The world of matter
Consider the human person.
 Recognize change as a process and as a phenomenon that's happens in the world, that in fact, it
is constant.
 Claims that despite the reality of change, this things remain and they retain their ultimate
"whatness"; that you remain to be you despite the pimple that now sits a top youe nose.
 Was convinced that reality is full of these seemingly contrasting manifestation of change and
permanence.
 This can only be explained by postulating two aspects of reality. Things are changing and
impermanent.