EXERCISE N° 4 & 5

EXERCISE N°4

-         Aristotle comes to the conclusion that there is a faculty of desire whose occupation it is to initiate animal motion.

-         practical reason and desire act corporately as the sources of purposive motion in all animals, both human and non-human, even though, ultimately, it is desire whose objects prick practical intellect and set it in motion.

EXERCISE N°5

In Aristotle approach, good character should manifest itself in behavior and three conditions must be present before a certain behavior can be called a good act:

·                     First, we must understand what we are doing and why it is good

·                     Second, what we do, must be freely chosen

·                     Finally, the “action must preceed from a firm and unchangeable character”.

An honest act is virtuous only if one does it because one is honest.

Happiness is not pleasure because we have got rational capabilities, it's a sort of activity  driven by reasoning  soul. All men, by nature desire to know , all human actions have one or more of these causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion and desire.

4^E Martina Dellisola, Gilberto Boragni, Kadim Gueye