Explain and evaluate Aristotle\'s argument in Chapter 7, sections 10-14 on pp. 8

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Explain and evaluate Aristotle's argument in Chapter 7, sections 10-14 on pp. 8-9 of the PDF file (beginning with " Perhaps, then, we shall find" and ending with "do this well and finely").  

First reconstruct the argument in premise/conclusion form. (New twist: You should also provide a one sentence description, under each premise, of what the supporting grounds are for this statement... that is, why one might think the statement is true). Second, explain in paragraph form what you think is the strongest possible objection to the argument, making clear whether the objection concerns the validity or soundness of the argument.

So the homework should look something like this:

P1:   blah blah
Grounds for P1: because blah blah

P2: blah blah

Grounds for P2: because.....

etc.

C: blah blah

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Honor, pleasure, understanding, and every virtue we cer- tainly choose because of themselves, since we would choose each of them even if it had no further result; but we also choose them for the sake of hap- 5 piness, supposing that through them we shall be happy* Happiness, by con trast, no oneever chooses for their sake, or for the sake of anything else at all. 6 The same conclusion Ithat happiness is completel also appears to follow from self-sufficiency. For the complete good seems to be selfsuffi- cient What we count as self sufficient is not what suffices for a solitary 0 person by himself, living an isolated life, but what suffices also or par- ents, children, wife, and, in general, for friends and fellow citizens, since a human being is a naturally political [animal S7 Here, however, we The remaining possibility, then, is some sort of life of actionof the [part of the sou that has reason.. One l part] of it has reason as obey ing reason; the other has it as itself having reason and thinking.' More- over, life is also spoken of in two ways (as capacity and as activityl and we must take la hurman being's special function to bel life as activity, since this seems to be called life more fully. S14 We have found, then, that the human function is activity of the soul in accord with reason or Now we say that the function of a [kind of thing- of a harpist, for instance-is the same in kind as the function of an excellent individual of the kind-of an excellent harpist, for instance. And the same is true with achievement in accord with the virtue; for the function of a harpist is to play the harp, and the function of a good harpist is to play it well. More over, we take the human function to be a certain life to be activity and actions of the soul that involve reason; hence the function of the excellent man is to do this well and finely. must impose some limit for if we extend the good to parents parents ar children's children and to friends of friends, we shall go on without limit: 5 Anyhow, we regard something as self sufficient wen all by itself it makes a life choiceworthy and lacking nothing and that is what we think happiness does. §8 Moreover, we think happines is most choice wor- thy of all goods, Isincel it is not counted as one good ama manyIf it werel counted as one among many. then, clearly, we think it would be more choiceworthy if the smallest of goods were added; for the good that is added becomes an extra quantity of goods, and the larger of two goods $15 Now each function is completed well by being completed in with the best and most complete virtue, if then are more virtues t one." 516 Moreover, in a complete life." For one swa a spring, nor does one day nor, siilarly, does one day or a sho over, in a complete life. For one swallow does not make Happiness, then, is apparently something complete and self-sufficient since it is the end of the things achievable in action. $17 This, then, is a sketch of the good; for, presumably, we must draw the outline first, and fill it in later If the sketch is good, anyone, it seems §9 But presumably the remark that the best good is happiness is apparently something [generallyl agreed, and we still need a clearer statement of what the best good is.. §10 Perhaps, then, we shall find 25 this if we first grasp the function of a human being. For ust as the good, e, ldoingl well, for a Aautist, a sculptor, and every craftsman, and, in general, for whatever has a function and [characteristic] action, seems to depend on its function,' the same seems to be true for a human being, if a advance and articulate it, and ins a good partner in discovery. That is also how the crafts have improved, 25 since anyone can add what is lackinglin the outlinel. § 18 We must also remember our previous remarks, so that we do not look for the same degree of exactness in all areas, but the degree that accords with a given subject matter and is proper to a given line of human b carpenter restricts himself to what helps 30 §11 Then do the carpenter and the leather worker have their functions and actions, but has a human being no function? Is he by nature idle, without any function? Or, just as eye, hand, foot, and, in general, every bodily] part apparently has its function, may we likewise ascribe to a work, but the geometer inquires into what, or whatortof th right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then, in other areas too, Iseeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digres- sions do not overwhelm our main task. human being some function apart from all of these?" $20 Nor should we make the same demand for an explanation in al 512 What, then, could this be? For living is apparently shared with plants, but what we are looking for is the special function of a human On the contrary, in some cases it is enough to prove rightly that lsomething is true, without also explaining why it is truej. This is so, sor 108 tl ENG

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the statement is true because it is considered on true story .

the strongest possible objection to the argument, making clear whether the objection concerns the validity or soundness of the argument is blah blah.

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