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in 500-750 words, review and critique original essay. re-answer the question adding insight of philosopher Plato or Aristotle. original essay and more details provided in file attached. I pose to you as our essay topic: What is the way we ought to live? What is the highest good for which our fleeting human lives are meant? Why?

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In writing this essay a second time, I want you to now think about this question in light of all we have read from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas and I want you to critique your original response. How have these four philosophers altered or sharpened your new response to this question? Does one or more of them particularly shape your new response to and understanding of this question? Do you still have questions that you do not think any of our philosophers addressed? Consider what was insufficient or lacking from your original response and what was good but needed to be explained or accounted for further.

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This assignment is designed to help you and me see how much your critical thinking skills and ability to think philosophically have developed and sharpened.

This essay should be between 500-750 words. In the Republic, while speaking to Thrasymachus, Socrates says, "we must now examine the question, as we proposed to do before*, of whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones...After all, the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live" (352d). Therefore, I pose to you as our essay topic: What is the way we ought to live? What is the highest good for which our fleeting human lives are meant? Why? In writing this essay a second time, I want you to now think about this question in light of all we have read from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas and I want you to critique your original response. How have these four philosophers altered or sharpened your new response to this question? Does one or more of them particularly shape your new response to and understanding of this question? Do you still have questions that you do not think any of our philosophers addressed? Consider what was insufficient or lacking from your original response and what was good but needed to be explained or accounted for further. This assignment is designed to help you and me see how much your critical thinking skills and ability to think philosophically have developed and sharpened. A successful essay will: 1. Specifically critique your original essay from the beginning of the semester i.e. say what was logically incorrect and philosophically incoherent about it and say what was logically correct and philosophically coherent (insofar as it is applicable). For example, anyone who said everyone ought to live however they want, but people should still all be nice to each other is logically incoherent because it simultaneously claims that there is no highest good and no highest truth, but that everyone should still adhere to a standard of goodness. That does not make sense. If you want a coherent ethics, you need an absolute good and an absolute truth. 2. Use at least one of the philosophers from class to critique the original essay response. Use Plato or Aristotle. 3. Answer: What is your response now? Would one of our philosophers criticize your new response. If so, why and what would you say him? 4. Answer: What questions remain from you as we end this course? 5. Meet the minimum word count, be coherent, and grammatically correct Original essay: First life in the Shadow of Death Essay The question “how ought we to live?” seems at first like an easy question to answer. However when trying respond to this question, I find it more difficult than I thought. The question in itself is not about the way I think I should live my life, but rather the way I think every human being should live life and reasons as to why I think that. Before answering this question, I think it’s first important to think about what the purpose of this first life which to me is to live to please God in preparation for the afterlife. The reality is that we are all going to die but we do not know when that day will be. Growing up I have heard this saying too very often, “Every day that we live is a step closer to death”. This then brings me back to the original question as to how we should live our lives. I think we all should live our lives in true love for God, and in love for others as ourselves. The way we are living right now is going after what will give us happiness and fulfillment in life. We are all seeking happiness in whatever we do whether that is going to school, working, getting married, having children, owning a business, and much more. I have noticed through not only my testimony but other’s as well that it is never enough. Even after getting all the degrees one has aspired to get, getting married to the love of their life, or better yet having the most beautiful healthy children, or starting and growing the most successful business in the world, human beings will never reach that everlasting fulfillment and happiness. We always want more. One day I was curious as to why my uncle Aime, who has accomplished all his goals as to pursing his dream of owning a very powerful fuel company is my country Cameroon, having the most beautiful children aside a gorgeous wife, being located in the beautiful home, and writing many books could still not be satisfied, wondering what’s next. I asked him one day while on vacation at his house and he could not find a direct answer, but all he could say is “It’s just not enough”. Over the course of couple weeks, I encouraged him to go to church more often, which he did. Later I found out he and his family are donors for a couple charities then asked him about the charities and how that was going for him. He was quite honest with me that it was the only thing he always looks forward to do because of the content feeling he gets knowing a family is being helped and will not go hungry for another month. A couple months later I was informed that he took in young three orphans into his home to raise them. Like my uncle, I’ve watched numerous testimonies from my church and other people testifying to the change that happened in their lives once they began having a relationship with God and in that their purpose is revealed to them. Alongside that revelation, their perspective on God, the world, themselves and others shifts. I myself having gone through the experience have come to the conclusion that God is the foundation of life and because God is true love, love then becomes the way we out to live this first life. This true love is not just words but sincerity and actions. Even when I look at the way society is set up, I see that basis of love in doing good whether it be in court, in a restaurant, a business office, is pretty much everywhere. We are here to love and help one another. We go to school to learn, and those teaching us have the purpose to help us learn. In the court of law, we see a judge who is supposed to be there to help people get justice and even for the person getting punished, they’re still being helped because that punishment brings them to be conscious of their wrong and later they can get a chance to make it right. In fact if we all live in love for one another, then there should be no place for evil or wrong doings. If we all act is love for one another as ourselves, we will treat others the way we will want to be treated. If I care about everyone with love, then it is like a dominos effect where in return the love will affect the person that they too will want to share that love with someone else and eventually it will come back to me. There is nothing wrong with self-love, matter of fact that is the catalyst to loving others. However we cannot live this world in isolation and think we are living. The only way to truly live is by being conscious of the purpose of this first life which is to please God followed by the actions which is living in love for Him and other human beings as ourselves.