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VIII. 



A SUMMARY OF ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS 

 AS COMPARED WITH MODERN 

 ETHICAL THEORIES. 



MAN is distinguished from the rest of the animal 

 kingdom by the possession of reason. This reason 

 shows itself in the search for knowledge, and the 

 search for an end, iravrtq bptyovrai row actevcu : 

 hence arise metaphysics and science (Eth., I. i. i). 

 Hence, too, Ethics and the practical sciences ; Trao-a 

 KOL Trao-a jUtfloSoc 6/xotwe &t 7T/oat'e TE KOI 

 ayaOov rtvog tyieaOai Soica. As rational, 

 man always aims at truth, for truth is the correlate 

 of reason ; but in speculation it is raArj&'e aTrAwc, 

 in practice it is aXrjfleta ojuoAoywc c^ouo-a ry bpi&i 

 ry bpOtj. 



Man's superiority to the brute is shown in both 

 ^poviftnc and <ro</ua, for both are impossible for the 

 irrational, but <ppovr]<jiQ is lower than o-o^ta. In 

 (T0(/>i'a, man approximates to God ; while brutes, 

 though strictly incapable of typovricrig, show signs 

 of that which in man is $p6vr\aiq. In the 



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