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. 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.”     “?                                       “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