Aristotle's ViewLife is really about 'money', 'cash', 'sluts', who has the biggest gold chain or who drives the shinier or faster car, who sells more albums or who has more respect? Aristotle challenges the views, which are similar to those held and displayed by rap artists such as Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G., by noting that everything in the universe, including humans, has a telos, or goal in life. It states that the purpose of human life is to achieve happiness or eudaimonia. I believe Aristotle is completely correct in his reasoning about the purpose of human nature. It also explains how happiness is different for each person, and each different type of person has a different idea of eudaimonia. He then goes on to talk about how a person should do all things in moderation, not doing too much but at the same time doing just enough. This idea, called the “golden mean of moderation,” was the backbone of Aristotle's idea of the human telos because it concluded that living a virtuous life must be the same for all people because of the way humans are constructed. Aristotle argued that the goal of human beings is happiness and that we achieve happiness when we fulfill our function. Therefore, it is necessary to determine what our function is. The function of a thing, or its telos, is what it alone can do, or what it can do best. Just as the function of the eye is to see, Aristotle declared the human being as "the rational animal" whose function...
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