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Man looking for happiness.
I´ve been reading Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle and I want to share with you some concepts that I has been thinking about.
Aristotle thinks that human being nature is to be a rational and political animal. The explanation it´s actually quite easy: we difference from animals because of we amazing ability of rational thinking. On the other side, we are political because we have to live in society in order to survive.
Ethics is the science which studies how humans should live and behave. The beginning is to find out which are the moral values that man have to archive in order to improve. There is no doubt that some “good” are better than others. For example, if you want to success in a school´s examination, it would be better for you to study rather than go out with your friends. In despite of this, I think that we all can agree that go out with your friends is not something bad. Having all of these in mind, we can think that there must be a superior good which every man must to search for. Again Aristotle thinks that this good must be the happiness. He strongly believes that it must be our life goal and that we certainly could archive it thought the development of virtue.
This is only a really short introduction of Aristotle´s ethic. I hope you have enjoyed.
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Looking for a committed partner spanish/ english
Hi everyone, my name is Gonzalo. I´m a native Spanish speaker looking for an English speaker who really want to make a fruitful exchange. The ideal is to speak by skype at least 1-2 times per week. The deal is 50/50 :)
If you like the idea, please add me as your friend.
Thank you!!
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My philosophy of life
Human nature settled that we must survive with our own abilities. What we have to figure out is which they are. For example, animals have instinct. It leads them through life automatically. They do not have conscious as the man who tells what´s right and wrong, they just know.
However, man don´t have that chance. If men want to develop and survive he must use the only tool that nature provides him: his mind. Nowadays, most people lives in contradiction. They fell sad and even bored. They think that to be happy they have to escape from pain. As Ayn Rand said: “An atom is itself, and so is the universe; neither can contradict its own identity; nor can a part contradict the whole. No concept man forms are valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.” The only way to be happy is to be better every day, to improve and break some boundaries. We must dream and take action to achieve our goals. The only way is to be productive.
Imagine that you are watching through your bedroom´s windows towards a tree. In the tree there is a bird with its pigeons. Could you possibly imagine that this mother would tear her son´s feathers apart before their first fly? So why we destroy our kids mind when we should teach them to use their mind. We have to encourage them because after all, they are the future.
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