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Aristotle might see both advantages and disadvantages to Americans watching an average of 17 hours of television per week. Within his view of the good society and happiness as the ideal aim of both individual and social life, Aristotle theorized two classes of individuals; ôOne is a leisure class made up of those citizens who can participate in the contemplative life, while the other is a working class comprised of those people who lack the potential for the proper use of leisure,ö (Dare, Welton & Coe, 1998, p. 39). As such, Aristotle might find this number of viewing hours an appropriate guidance and leisure time for those who lack the potential for the contemplative life. This might be especially true if those who participate in the contemplative life were responsible for television programming. In this manner, Aristotle might view this as an advantageous thing, but if he determined there was no virtue or value in television programming that would justify spending leisure time on it, he might view it as a disadvantag

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f faith we are able to exhibit values in accordance with it. Thus, shows like Touched by an Angel or Joan of Arcadia of Seventh Heaven might by considered advantageous to Kierkegaard in that they direct individuals to the ethical actions that develop the ethical self. Thus, Kierkegaard would see some advantages to television viewing, but most of the programming available would not be geared toward promoting the ôgood lifeö by him, one that must include the development of the ethical self. Conclusion In conclusion, while Aristotle and Kierkegaard may have seen some advantages to television viewing, it is highly unlikely that either Marx or St. Augustine would have. Even so, Aristotle and Kierkegaard would only find such viewing advantageous when it helped to develop the capacities and skills each found necessary in individual development to approach the ôgood life.ö Augustine would have found it distracting from the good life, while Marx would have viewed it as somnambulistic pabulum for the proletariat designed by the elites to maintain power. QUESTION TWO Introduction According to Dare, Welton and Coe (1998) both the classical Greek ideal and the existentialist view of the good life overlap via the concept of contemplati
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