Question

Outline Aristotle's degrees of wrongdoing in terms of the seven causes of people's actions

Answer 1

According to Aristotle in his book Rhetoric: every action occur due to one or seven causes of action.

These causes are:

1. Chance: It affects us all the time. things that occur by chance cannot be explained and have no purpose.

2. Nature: forces those are generated in our body like hunger, thirst, other bodily desires.

3. Compulsion: It happens when we feel that action is necessary for us. However, we want to or not.

4. Habit: these are action without any prior thinking. It causes due to the repetition of prior action.

5. Reasoning: It creates action when the goal is already mentioned.

6. Anger: It is one of the main cause of action it can create extreme action.

7. Appetite: It is also known as desire. While anger represents negative action on the other hand appetite represents pleasant actions.

These causes drive persons in different manners. some person may be affected by different causes than others. If we can identify how these cause can affect people in different manners. we can motivate them better.