Instructions What is the best moral system?                            (By what method should a person come to realize his life?) Plato's ideas held sway over 1,500 years

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What is the best moral system? 

                          (By what method should a person come to realize his life?)

Plato's ideas held sway over 1,500 years. Then it was Aristotle, the scientist's, turn -- the Renaissance. We now live and believe the forms of Aristotle, if not the substance.

     Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics - The foundation of modern ETHICS

                                          "If it is in our power to act nobly, it is also in our power to do evil."

                   “Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”

  “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

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                                      “Philosophy can make people sick.”

                                                                                                                                   ? Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Links to an external site.)

                                                                                                                        (Admit it: that is pretty cool.)

But, you have to give the other early ethical thinkers -- Epicurus, Democritus, Confucius, even Pythagoras -- attention

INQUIRY: Pick one of the basis of moral life and argue for it as the method a person should come to realize his life:

~~Aristotle = Teleological Ethics -- Intentions and Consequences -- Happiness

    ~~Plato = Deontological Ethics --  Rules and Duties -- Morals are Forms 

~~Epicurus and Democritus -- Normative Ethics -- Pleasure Principle

   ~~Confucius = Standards and behaviors in society