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Secular "Eudaimonia"?
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| Keo_Nade |
Im writing a paper on my belifs on how to life a "true" or "good" life. We are supposed to use either Plato/Socrates or Aristotle and compare their views on these subjects to those of Tolstoy in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" while incorperating our own views on teh subject.
As a non-religious person, how can I appoach the subject? Both Tolstoy and Aristotle were religious in their own rights. Tolstoy being a christian who had greivances with the established orthodox church, and Aristotle as a greek pagan who had qualms with the established worshiping practices of the time.
Would a secular/non-religious Tolstoy and Aristotle agree with a materialist lifestyle? Can you live the "Life of Contemplation" while persuing earthly wealth? Aristotle belived that material happiness was seperate but almost as important as metaphysical happiness, While Tolstoy seems to hold materialism as a whole as "not the real thing."
As I contemplate this and write the paper I will refer back to this thread and listen to your thoughts even if they are BS and if this works ill update it. Don't worry though this is a one-time thread and i have to turn the paper in tommorow so I won't be posting all my philosophy here forever, just for the next 20 hours probably. If this kind of post isn't appreciated, tell me and you can delete it. |
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| enferno |
| i suggust that you instead write a paper on the comparison of eggplants versus actual eggs. |
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| washout |
i could write your paper for you.
assuming the follwing ...
1. i have read plato, aristotle, socrates, recently, not like 5 years ago.
2. you give me a keg of yuengling, cold, tapped.
3. i have no job.
4. i am not still in school.
5. you give me food.
6. you give me money.
with that said ... |
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| Keo_Nade |
| decided that tolstoy is religiously bias, aristotle doesn't know what he wants, and that you shoudl just live your life for whatever reason seems best to you at the time. AKA i surrendered to the paper. |
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