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EV 2ESO - 10 The ethics of happiness - Contenido educativo

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Subido el 22 de octubre de 2020 por César Pedro P.

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This video briefly explains Aristotle's ethical theory

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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived in Athens in the 4th century BC. 00:00:01
For Aristotle, ethics is based on a basic purpose that everybody wants to achieve. 00:00:07
Think about this for a while. 00:00:15
What do you want to achieve? 00:00:17
Maybe you think that different people want different goals. 00:00:19
They try to achieve different things. 00:00:23
Some people want to be rich. 00:00:25
Other people want to be famous. 00:00:27
Other people want a good job. 00:00:29
other people want to create a family, and it's okay. Aristotle would agree, but then he would 00:00:30
ask these people, why do you want that? Why do you want the money? What do you want the money for? 00:00:37
Or what do you want the fame for? Or what do you want your family for? If someone wants to be rich, 00:00:46
he wants the money to obtain something with it. It is not an end in itself. It is a means, 00:00:53
an instrument to obtain something more. What do you want with the money? With the money and with 00:00:59
the fame and with a good job and with the family and with all the kinds of things that we want, 00:01:06
Aristotle thought that we are all looking for something, which is happiness. When we achieve 00:01:12
happiness, that's it. That's what we want. We don't want happiness to obtain anything else. 00:01:20
happiness is not an instrument. It is an end in itself. So Aristotle thought that though different 00:01:26
people might want different things, in the long run what we all want is the same, is to be happy. 00:01:33
So the ethics of Aristotle is an ethics of happiness. He is thinking about how we can 00:01:41
really achieve happiness. That's why the ethics of Aristotle is considered an ends-based ethics 00:01:49
because he thinks we have a purpose in our life, an end, an objective, which is the pursuit of 00:01:58
happiness. Aristotle's ethics, it is also called eudaimonic ethics. These difficult words come from 00:02:05
Greek. In Greek, eudaimonia means happiness, so an eudaimonic ethics is an ethics that considers 00:02:15
happiness the basic goal of our life. And how can we achieve happiness? What does Aristotle have to 00:02:23
tell us? He gives us some advice if we want to be happy, because Aristotle thought that real 00:02:32
happiness consists in becoming the kind of person you want to be. So he thought that it is important 00:02:39
to consider slowly what kind of person you want to become in the future and to practice virtue 00:02:49
in order to become this kind of person. He said, if you want to be happy, think about the person 00:02:57
you want to become, and then get used to practicing good habits, virtues, in order to become this kind 00:03:04
of person. And what is virtue for Aristotle? Aristotle thought that virtue lies in the middle 00:03:14
ground between excesses and defects. So, extremes are bad, the middle point is correct, is virtue. 00:03:20
Aristotle's recipe for happiness is practice virtue, choose the middle point, think carefully 00:03:29
with prudence the kind of person you want to be, and get used to practicing the kind of good habits 00:03:38
that will get you closer to this important goal. 00:03:44
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