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• Plato believes that understanding oneself is the key to achieving a good life. By understanding our dreams and goals, we can embrace reality and appreciate life.
• Plato believes that understanding oneself is the key to achieving a good life. By understanding our dreams and goals, we can embrace reality and appreciate life.
• Aristotle, a student of Plato, also aims for a good life but provides a more detailed distinction between theoretical and practical sciences in achieving it.
• Aristotle, a student of Plato, also aims for a good life but provides a more detailed distinction between theoretical and practical sciences in achieving it.
• Theoretical sciences focus on truth, while practical sciences aim to find the good (the end goal of life).
• To have a good life, we need to understand our deepest existential needs and assess if those needs make us better people and give us a good existence.
• Aristotle contradicts Plato's idea that there are two realities (world of forms and world of matter). According to Aristotle, this world is the only reality, and everything we experience is real.
• Plato's two realities: World of forms: unchanging, permanent, and the "real" world World of matter: changing, impermanent, and a copy of the world of forms
• Aristotle claims that we learn and appreciate our real existence by observing others and changing ourselves to become better.
• Happiness is the ultimate goal of life, and we aspire to have a good life because we want to be happy.
• The idea of utilitarianism, as expressed by John Stewart Mill, suggests that the greatest happiness principle is to consider the happiness of the greatest number of people affected by our actions.
• Materialism is the concept of basing happiness on material possessions.
• Hedonism is the idea that the end goal of life is to acquire pleasure.
• Humanism is the belief that individuals have the freedom to carve their own destiny and create their own laws.
• The main purpose of life is to attain a good life, and people use various philosophies to achieve it, such as focusing on god, humanism, or stoicism.
• As long as one is happy with their actions and not harming others, it is the end goal of life to be happy.