Ethics For Life Orientation

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Mang Oejank Indro

Title: "Ethics of Aristotle"
Author: Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of the First Republic of Indonesia
Publication Data: Natural Greek Thought, London: UI-Press, xvii, 191.

The purpose of life, according to Aristotle, is not achieving good for good, but tasted good. A lecturer, education is life orientation, for a fighter, victory became its orientation, a physician-oriented health care, for a businessman, kemakmuranlah orientation of his life. To become an ethical person - as well as a virtuous person, berkehidupan orientation is not just knowing but doing. Not just to know what that reason. How to mind your present life? How ethical orientation of life traffic system? Both of these depend on consideration of the man himself. Ethics has a job description will educate people to have a proper attitude in all deeds. In other words, human being must be healthy in terms of weighing, selft control, and balancing Willingness and wishes.

Ethics (Budi) was born among human beings because of their actions and behavior. To understand ethics as the orientation of living - with the goal of achieving happiness of life, there are three things that must be filled according to Aristotle. First, people must have enough wealth so that his life is preserved. Low behavior that develops in the human soul because of poverty, and will force people to be greedy because of poverty. Second, friendship. According to Aristotle, friendship is more important than justice. Justice will be born in the midst of friendship. However, friendship is difficult to form in the number of men in great numbers. Third, fairness. In this case justice is divided into two. First of justice in the sense that the distribution of goods balanced, with relatively similar circumstances. Both justice in the sense to repair the damage caused. The second option can be studied from an agreement to replace losses.

Pleasure derived from the soul is happiness. This will be achieved with the mind works. Ethics as oerientasi underlie the life work of mind. Work does not mind looking beyond that goal done, but find pleasure in oneself. Satisfaction, tireless, and an innate ability of mind. And orientation of life in it. So, justice and friendship is the key of life that underlies the common life in the family and the State.

References.

Hatta, Mohammad. 1986. Alam Pikiran Yunani Jakarta: UI-Press