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This 3 page paper considers the concepts of “experience” and “the mean” in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
Inc. by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Aristotle is one of the founders of Western thought and his works are
studied to this day. They are unusually clear; difficulty in understanding may come from inept translations. This paper briefly considers two concepts from his Nicomachean Ethics: "experience" and "the mean."
Conclusion Experience: Aristotle argues that the aim of every action or thought is the good. He also notes that there are many ways of achieving the good (many means to
the ends) and that in this context, the end products are always better than the means that produced them (Aristotle, Book I, 2009). That is, the end good of medical
arts is healing; the end good of shipbuilding is a ship; and so on. He then goes on to argue that there are cases in which many processes are subsumed
into others, using the example of bridle-making, saddlery and all other things having to do with equipping horses coming under the "art of riding" (Aristotle, Book I, 2009). He notes
that well-equipped horses then fall under military action which itself falls under strategy; he asks if, continuing this process, we might not find some subject or art that contains all
others, and he says yes: politics (Aristotle, 2009). It is what he calls the "Master Art": it is politics that determines "which of the sciences should be studied in
a state, and which each class of citizens should learn and up to what point they should learn them" (Aristotle, Book I, 2009). Economics, rhetoric, strategy and the rest of
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