aristotle's quotes

Script: Recording 2

I am from 1I3 and my name is Lu Zhi Hao, I agree with Aristotle’s view that “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” I will be using two elements of the Paul’s Wheel of Reasoning to make my argument. They are inference and evidence.

To begin, I am using inference to agree with Aristotle’s view that “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” I will use elimination to prove that Aristotle is right. Firstly, when humans do something, it is either because we want to do it, or it is by chance. So we can prove that one of the seven causes is chance. Next, if we happen to touch something hot, we would instantly retract our hand, that is because of human nature. Most criminals commit crimes on impulse, they did not think before they committed the crime. The fourth point is habit. After doing a certain action for a long period of time, we would form a habit, even after that action is no longer needed, we would still do it for a period of time. The next point is the most common of all. Most actions of humans have a reason. They do certain things because they have a reason to. Some people are very passionate about what they do, they will do things out of passion. Finally, when we desire something, we will try to get it, which is when we do things out of desire.

To continue, I would like to agree with Aristotle’s view that “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” If you observe any human action, you will be able to find at least one of these seven causes. Crimes, generous acts any action that humans do will have one of these seven causes.