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A 4 page essay that draws discusses the 1993 movie Groundhog Day (directed by Harold Ramis) and Aristotelian ethics. Analysis of this film demonstrates that the protagonist goes through an intellectual development that leads to conclusions paralleling those of Aristotelian ethics. The leading character in the film ultimately comes to the realizations that were reached by Aristotle several millennia ago. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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day. He relives the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over again. Analysis of this film demonstrates that this scenario leads Phil through an intellectual development that leads to conclusions
paralleling those of Aristotelian ethics. Phil ultimately comes to the realizations that were reached by Aristotle several millennia ago. Essentially, Phils fate is to learn the hard way. As each
new day starts over and repeats the previous days experience, Phil slowly realizes that his actions have no consequences. Anything he does, from overeating to having a string of sexual
encounters, never results in personal repercussions because all actions are wiped out during the night and the next morning, the same day starts over. Not surprisingly, Phil goes wild and
indulges in every conceivable sensual pleasure. Money is no object because he figures out from observation how to take a bag of cash from a banks armored truck. Phil is
a middle-aged man, but this portion of his "Groundhog Day" experience constitutes what Aristotle might have deemed as a time equivalent to youth. In Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics, he recognizes that
it is normal, particularly for young people, to equate sensual pleasures with happiness. Nevertheless, Aristotle wrote that only men of the "most vulgar type" appear to equate what is good
with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the movie would not have surprised Aristotle in the least. After
an extended time of having a life of pleasure, Phil eventually tires of indulging his senses. Aristotle regarded a life of sensual pleasure as being base and truly appropriate only
for beasts (Durant 62). In fact, Phil becomes so sick of simply indulging himself that he prefers death to the continuation of this existence. Phil is driven to this desperate
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