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He is a Western philosopher who attempted to find explanations regarding Naturalism (Materialism) without referring to supernatural theories in order to find naturalistic explanations about the elements of the world.
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"There are written and unwritten rules for good behavior, and ultimately a good life."
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“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”
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Said that the well-being of human (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct. “There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”
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Stated that the greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other people. “These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions." "The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
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The four virtues, namely prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice represents some determinate mode of right understanding. “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
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His doctrines about happiness are still valuable these days. "It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly."
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Claims that happiness can only be achieved through the use of right reason coinciding with the universal reason (referred to as Logos) which governs everything. ""Happiness is a good flow of life."
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Hobbes argued that the fundamental principles of morality, or laws of nature, require us to try to establish peace. "Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different."
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He is known for his insistence that one's actions possess moral worth only when one does his duty for its own sake. "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
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He aims at freeing higher human beings from their false consciousness about morality that their false belief that this morality is good for them "Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
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He claimed and proposed that humans would have to rely only on the human powers of reason to choose principles of social justice for their society. "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.”