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CEV 2ESO - 08 The ethics of happiness - Contenido educativo

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Subido el 21 de julio de 2023 por César Pedro P.

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The ethics of happiness

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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived in Athens in the 4th century BC. 00:00:00
For Aristotle, ethics is based on a basic purpose that everybody wants to achieve. 00:00:08
Think about this for a while. 00:00:16
What do you want to achieve? 00:00:18
Maybe you think that different people want different goals. 00:00:20
They try to achieve different things. 00:00:24
Some people want to be rich, other people want to be famous, other people want a good 00:00:26
job, other people want to create a family, and it's okay. 00:00:30
Aristotle would agree, but then he would ask these people, why do you want that? 00:00:35
Why do you want the money? 00:00:42
What do you want the money for? 00:00:44
Or what do you want the fame for? 00:00:46
Or what do you want your family for? 00:00:49
If someone wants to be rich, he wants the money to obtain something with it. 00:00:52
It is not an end in itself, it is a means, an instrument to obtain something more. 00:00:57
What do you want with the money? 00:01:02
With the money, and with the fame, and with a good job, and with a family, and with all 00:01:05
the kinds of things that we want, Aristotle thought that we are all looking for something, 00:01:10
which is happiness. 00:01:17
When we achieve happiness, that's it, that's what we want. 00:01:19
We don't want happiness to obtain anything else. 00:01:24
Happiness is not an instrument, it is an end in itself. 00:01:27
So Aristotle thought that, though different people might want different things, in the 00:01:31
long run, what we all want is the same, is to be happy. 00:01:36
So the ethics of Aristotle is an ethics of happiness. 00:01:42
He is thinking about how we can really achieve happiness. 00:01:46
That's why the ethics of Aristotle is considered an ends-based ethics, because he thinks we 00:01:53
have a purpose in our life, an end, an objective, which is the pursuit of happiness. 00:02:00
Aristotle's ethics, it is also called eudaimonic ethics. 00:02:08
These difficult words come from Greek. 00:02:13
In Greek, eudaimonia means happiness, so an eudaimonic ethics is an ethics that considers 00:02:16
happiness the basic goal of our life. 00:02:24
And how can we achieve happiness? 00:02:28
What does Aristotle have to tell us? 00:02:30
He gives us some advice if we want to be happy, because Aristotle thought that real happiness 00:02:34
consists in becoming the kind of person you want to be. 00:02:41
So he thought that it is important to consider slowly what kind of person you want to become 00:02:47
in the future, and to practice virtue in order to become this kind of person. 00:02:54
He said, if you want to be happy, think about the person you want to become, and then get 00:03:01
used to practicing good habits, virtues, in order to become this kind of person. 00:03:07
And what is virtue for Aristotle? 00:03:16
Aristotle thought that virtue lies in the middle ground between excesses and defects. 00:03:18
So extremes are bad, the middle point is correct, is virtue. 00:03:24
Aristotle's recipe for happiness is practice virtue, choose a middle point, think carefully 00:03:31
with prudence the kind of person you want to be, and get used to practicing the kind 00:03:38
of good habits that will get you closer to this important goal. 00:03:44
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