Ecce homo: inquiry Aristotle around the human nature

The Aristotle’s Ethic of Nicodemus is clear representation of human nature, we can begin with, it is usual, step of this book, regard the sake of politic and the high good of action, around the name is the first inquiry, that today seems ridiculous, but we must consider that this book was written by Aristotle during 4^th century before Ch., and before him nobody has written something similar to Ethic; anyway regard the name of good Aristotle explained: “Regard the name almost everybody is concord, both the culture persons and the common people say that it is the felicity, and they think that be successful and to live good is motive to felicity, but they don’t concord regard the nature of felicity, and very much definite it by different kind the crowd differs from wise; somebody defines it a visible thing and manifest, as the pleasure, the richness or honor, and relative to persons somebody think it a thing and other instead other thing”; certainly the comments are it is normal hence where is importance? Simple the first is this book is a book exoteric, from ancient Greek έξωτερικός this is public book for everybody, instead the esoteric was to elite of pupils of Aristotle; this is explication of this easy to understand the think of Aristotle, and he continuing: “actually, often the same person  considers a different thing: if one gay is sick identifies it to health , if one guy is poor identify it to richness, if somebody is aware of his ignorance he admires whom speak about important argument…”; a question raises because curiosity is predominant: we are sure that this book Aristotle has written in 4^th century, because it seems the description of daily man, but today, that be distant two thousand and four centuries years from Aristotle. The Aristotle’s inquiry has acme regard a step that, he hasn’t called so because isn’t born, but that today we could define as compensation dynamic, the is a reaction of man in front of determined deficiency, Aristotle explains: “Furthermore it seems that the men pursue the honor to convince themselves of be good; hence they search honor from wise persons and from who know them…”; it is description of complex of inferiority that searches his compensation to approbation of somebody. The last step that here I want consider is very much important, because is a human reality that nobody has identified before and after Aristotle: “It is common opinion that the right man is a sort equal and that the friendship is in equality”; this is a daily reality, the friendship usually is born alone among is equal; the proximity between two persons is normal when they have common characteristic. This book is essential to understand the ancient Greek man and the contemporary man, because the man is equal in every century, improved the tools and technology, but the man is similar in his nature.

Alessandro Lusana