Friendship,Fragility And Good Life | | Posted on:2020-01-06 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | | Country:China | Candidate:X L Wang | Full Text:PDF | | GTID:2405330596970608 | Subject:Ethics | | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | | Modern moral philosophy puts reason in a supreme position and regards reason as the source of morality.This universal rationality of modern moral philosophy promises an impartiality,that is to say,people are acting according to the rules,and everyone is the same and no special.Faced with the unbiased commitment of modern moral philosophy,contemporary moral philosophers Nussbaum and Williams pointed out that special emotions and luck also play a role in moral life.Thus a debate between unbiased and friendly is launched.In addition,because modern moral philosophy promotes rationality and pays attention to the rules of human actions and actions,it neglects the cultivation of human virtues,neglects the problem of human inner spiritual order,and leads to the overall crisis of human life.In order to solve these problems brought about by modern moral philosophy,Moral ethicists pointed out that the restoration of moral ethics and return to Aristotle,so that friendship returns to people’s vision again.In the issue of modern moral philosophy and the revival of virtue ethics,the unbiased and friendly debate,returning to Aristotle,has become the way to solve the modern moral crisis.It is in this context that Nussbaum proposed friendship as a "relationship of goodness" and goodness is fragile.The relationship of friendship,the vulnerability of goodness shows the dependence of people on the external things,indicating that people are limited rational beings,highlighting the position of human emotions and luck in human life.Although Nussbaum developed Aristotle’s emotional theory,her path to correct the modern moral philosophy has gone to another bias.In order to solve the problems brought by modern moral philosophy,we should return to Aristotle’s virtue and love,and return to the good life based on the integrity of morality and friendship.Although friendship is presented as a relationship,in essence,friendship is a virtue.The position of reason in moral life is more important.Reason is above emotion.At the same time,it does not deny the threat that emotion and luck bring to moral life,that is,the vulnerability of luck and luck to human life.It is precisely under the guidance of reason that the life in which emotion and luck play a role is the good life pursued by mankind,and it is the good life of the human being.The person who lives here is the one who preserves the harmony of the soul.Although Aristotle is based on the foundation of a good life of virtue and friendship,that is,the city-state community does not exist,but the virtue of man is related to a certain social community that it relies on to produce and maintain,so long as people still live in certain In the social structure,both the city-state community and the modern society need virtue to form a bond of mutual solidarity and maintain mutual relations.Therefore,to return to Aristotle’s virtue and love,return to the overall good life.This article is divided into three parts.First,through the interpretation of the " fragility of goodness" and the friendship of "relationship goodness",Nussbaum emphasizes the role of luck and emotion in moral life.It is the participation of emotion and luck that brings the fragility of human life.Secondly,by interpreting Aristotle’s friendship is the virtue friendship,and relationship between friendship and happiness,pointing out that reason has a leading role in moral life,and reason is supreme.But even a stable virtue friendship and happiness,will be affected by uncontrollable luck and emotion,thus acknowledging the role of emotion in moral life.Finally,it clarifies the Aristotle’s virtue friendship and A good life based on the virtues of friendship are important in the modern society where the theory of goodness is lost and the value is diversified. | | Keywords/Search Tags: | friendship, Aristotle, fragility, good life, Nussbaum | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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