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Philosophy of Aristotle: The Ethics: Introduction; Book 1

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristotle

Aristotle
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Ethics: Introduction; Book 1

Introduction:

Ethics belongs to the second main classification of science in
Aristotle's system, practical science. The word "practical" is derived from
the Greek word praxis, meaning doing, or action. Ethics belongs to that branch
of philosophy which has to do with human action. The word ethics comes from
the Greek word ethos, whose primary meaning is custom, manners, habit.
Aristotle uses the word chiefly in its secondary meaning of character, that
which reveals what a man really is. Aristotle thinks that to ask what a man
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