Human nature
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B
Language:
English
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Country:
Taiwan
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11/6/96
Our life is full of problems. Reasoning is a usual way to response to problems which we
concern about. We reason in response to everyday problems. For instance, asked by
friends to go out dinner at a time when we have planned something else, we must decide
which one is more important for us at that moment of time, and whether to decline or to
adjust our schedule. Reasoning appropriate to problems like this has often been called
practical. Practical reasons might be said to be reasons for acting, and it is in some sense
point toward action. Practical reasoning has been much discussed by philosophers, and it
is catalogued under Moral Philosophy. For Aristotle's moral philosophy, as it appears in his
document now called the Nicomachean ethics, reflects his teleological (goal-oriented)
metaphyics. In the Nicomachean ethics, where Aristotle considers a science of doing, and
acting in certain way to seek rational ends. The notion of Goal, or Purpose, is the principal
one in his moral theory.
Aristotle noted that every act is performed for some purpose, which he defined as the
"good" of that act, the end at...
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