Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 4 | The Virtue of Truthfulness

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 4 | The Virtue of Truthfulness | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Truthfulness (about oneself), and its opposed vices of Boastfulness and Self-Deprecation.
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@LearnEnglishESL 7 жыл бұрын

May Aristotle be blessed eternally. "Truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues. Without truthfulness progress and success, in all the worlds of God, are impossible for any soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also be acquired." - Bahá’i Faith

@GregoryBSadler 10 жыл бұрын

new Core Concept video on another Aristotelian virtue (and it's associated vices)

@nuqleo 10 жыл бұрын

notable lección, muchas gracias

@Ralf_Wilmes 10 жыл бұрын

Loved it.

@GregoryBSadler 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@fergsacademia2104 2 жыл бұрын

Once again a very digestable and informative video lecture Professor Sadler. I have recently watched your video on Friendliness, and this got me thinking about the other virtues. I can't seem to find the virtue of fidelity. Is fidelity a virtue? When we make a promise to our child, to our job via a contract, or a promise on whim - what does the virtue ethicist say about these? It appears to me that the circumstances which a person can break a promise according to the theory is entirely relative to circumstance. Surely the virtuous person can break promises according to circumstances where the circumstances which the promise was made under has changed, or where fulfilling the promise would only be done to maintain ones self pride? In short, what does the virtue ethicist say about promises and breaking them?

@GregoryBSadler 2 жыл бұрын

They would be under justice for Aristotle

@elah96 5 жыл бұрын

What about people who have traits of all of them? They are valuing truth sincerely, but living falsely; boasting a genuine love for reality, but also for a twisted moral of justice? Constantly self-evaluated, but also changing the definition of what is right and wrong from other perspectives, not to gain a self power for a false definition in the moment for advantage, but to find any evil in good and vice versa? Clearly, good is not evil; but good can become evil (i.e. criminal); and evil is not good, but can become a good (i.e. war). Is that right to question the reasons behind why is truth absolute when we ourselves don't 100% know right is always right? Or we do know it, because isn't truth right? Is questioning the rightness of truth wrong? Is that mindfully deceptive or just a societal life plot hole in what truth is and how to simply define it for the sake of understanding? Am I looking too far into it; I thought Philosophy has no limits to freedom of thought, but at the same time I don't want a thought as wrong to become truth and the description above I think intertwines with that very concept. How do we know what we claim as truth is absolute if we don't know everything to begin with? I guess history's experiences and outcomes answer that. But how is it that I can justify an evil as good; though I know that it is wrong and likely not true? Sorry for the moral crisis question haha; I hate manipulation, but I think I am to myself because I see many points of views and they all want to be right.

@GregoryBSadler 5 жыл бұрын

You're imagining something that doesn't really take place.