Aristotle was a Greek Philosopher, a student of Plato who was responsible for major contributions for metaphysics to ethics, aesthetics and politics. He believed that the function of a human was to engage in an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Aristotle thought that there were two overriding virtues, intellectual and moral. The intellectual virtues he claimed were acquired by inheritance and education and the moral ones through the imitation of practice and habit. The highest virtue, according to Aristotle was intellectual contemplation. In addition, there are an additional 12 virtues that can also be attributed to Aristotle and they are as follows:
1) Courage – bravery and valor
2) Temperance – self-control and restraint
3) Liberality – bigheartness, charity and generosity
4) Magnificence – radiance, joie de vivre
5) Pride – self-satisfaction
6) Honor – respect, reverence, admiration
7) Good Temper – equanimity, level headedness
8) Friendliness – conviviality and sociability
9) Truthfulness – straightforwardness, frankness and candor
10) Wit – sense of humor – meaninglessness and absurdity
11) Friendship – camaraderie and companionship
12) Justice – impartiality, evenhandedness and fairness
The mostly nonsensical musings of plagarizing faggots who helped destroy their own society with their navel gazing idiocy and rank degenerate bullshit.
>defining your own virtues >believing in subjectivity
Begone Critical Theory Cultural Marxist plebeian.
Jordan Harris
This is what the terminal stages of being a contrarian faggot look like. He probably started off reflexively hating top40 music or Rick&Morty, but eventually had to go to harder stuff to get his fix of smugness.
Jose Bennett
These two idiots are a sign of the times. Thanks for the read OP
Henry Howard
>the virgin ideal-chaser >the Chad ideal-creator
Kayden Baker
>applying dualism onto objectivity
Plebeians are quite the entertainment, I must say.
Aristotle and Plato were probably the worst greek philosophers. I guess popularity and lack of quality holds some truth. The good philosophers, such as Democritus, were scolded at and had their documents burned by Plato.
Jordan Reyes
Be like diogenes, the only chad of the greek philosophers
Angel Nelson
bob I swear I was reading up on this guy the other day, I heavily fw him. Someone has to make a virgine aristotle or the like vs a chad diogenes meme
Daniel Foster
Where did he talk about this?
Austin Sanders
Xenophons speech adressing the generals and captains after being betrayed by that fag Artaxerxes gave me some Zeus-tier motivation
>You will never swing your massive hellenic dick with your 9999 bros all the way to babylon and back
Cooper Murphy
I've been hearing about "the rational male" on some of the other threads. Is it a good book? What's it about?
Jacob Rivera
bro, i just downloaded that book, you motivated me to read, thank you, we are gonna make it
Aaron Jones
Nicomachean Ethics
Ryan Fisher
Nicomachean Ethics
Christian Lee
This is all about training the mind, which includes keeping the body in subordination to it. There are lots of inspirational quotes I like to use as motivation during a run.
For example: "Let a wise man blow off the impurities of himself, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one, little by little, and from moment to moment..."
I'm not saying Buddhists are wrong to identify attachment as the root cause of suffering; I just don't buy into the notion that total detachment is a proper way to live life or a good goal to strive for. The most I can agree with is being selective about what you choose to attach yourself to, and owning up to the consequences.
>The most I can agree with is being selective about what you choose to attach yourself to, and owning up to the consequences. I totally agree. I haven't gone full Buddhist or anything, but I've been reading texts from various traditions and taking what inspiration I can from them. Technically, I guess I'm still a Christian of some sort. Still, some of the eastern texts really resonate with me. While the west has its great traditions of meditation/contemplation, the instructions are often so vague that it's difficult to know how to progress without a teacher, and unfortunately I don't think I know anybody who's equipped to instruct me in this.
Cooper Carter
How do I control myself from sexual excess? I know it's holding back from my goals, but I feel if I were to go full monk or not to get laid that it may hinder my goals also because I'll have less social standing by not getting laid that much.
I've actually met famous people though fucking their daughters lol
Eli Jackson
Getting laid is fine, as long as you don't go full manwhore. On the other hand, if you're referring to masturbation, you definitely need to control it. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild animal or a god."
Brayden Lopez
I haven't gone fullwhore - what bothers me the most about getting laid is the time and process it takes to do so, which can be spent much more producitvely reading and studying
Now, the best solution to this will be getting a GF, but I seriously don't want to devote my time to something that will not will likely just fail and sputter out and focus on my career while I'm young
Lucas Morris
Look into Hesychasm. It was an ancient Eastern Christian Orthodox meditation practice that has been forgotten. For more information, visit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm
Hunter Bell
Hey I'm in the same situation. This may seem weird but I would try to get a couple FWBs (friends with benefits). I work overseas mostly and come back home about every 9 months so I can't really do the GF thing but at the same time I don't want to waste my time home just looking at tinder. Having a couple girls that I can consistently fuck (who are also great people to hang with generally) gives me a nice alternative.
Nice. I've read some of the major Orthodox theologians and really like their vision of the spiritual life. Coincidentally, I tried to visit an Orthodox church over in the next town yesterday morning, but the door was locked and it looked abandoned. I'm still thinking about trying to contact the priest if he's still in the area. If I do that, I'll try to remember to bring up Hesychasm.
Grayson Cruz
>Critical Theory Cultural Marxist plebeian this is what American Shapiro-tier normies think Nietzsche is lmao
Thales was a Chad. He got pussies so wet he thought the whole world was made of water
Mason Wilson
an individual can rationalize ANYTHING.
as a specie, humans learn everything from other people. that's how most social animals work. you can never build your own ideals. they always come from something else, except the rare few you managed to come up with on your own. but even then, most people already thought of that before you were even born.
you need a balance. learn from other people, from everyone. but temper the ideals with wisdom and your own environment.
Adam Price
>learn from other people, from everyone. but temper the ideals with wisdom and your own environment. I think that's what Nietzsche's saying. Your virtue emerges from your experiences trying to reach your goals
Charles Thompson
Probably some stoicism ex:Marcus Aurelius/Epictetus Or read books of old folktales or tales of what the average soldier had to do, it's hard to complain about most modern problems after read about how much work an average legionnaire had to do daily for 20 years. Or the courage used daily to survive the horrors of WW1 ex:Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Not a Buddhist, but I’ve listened to a few lectures by Buddhist teachers. As I understand it, the Buddha only advised against being attached to things subject to aging, illness, and death. People, jobs, nations, etc. So metaphysical/eternal things, like virtue and righteous actions are what you should put your life into. I think the term they use is “skillful qualities” for these virtues.
read about babylon and realize that all cities are doomed to be hellscapes regardless of technological advancement. philosophy isn't meant to dictate what you do every day, in many cases it just offers a possibility of pointing you in the right direction.
also I just pulled this out of my ass. also Jefferson: >I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.
