Designer Labels and Robin Hood - Caroline Tucker

I love reading philosophy, however, I always have a hard time writing for philosophy.  Book IV was very good but felt all over the place. As soon as I was beginning confident about a subject then Aristotle would change subject. There were several times where I would connect our culture to what Aristotle was saying. I will only talk about tow of them. 

The first connection I made was to Robin Hood. Aristotle talks of the liberal man by saying, “the liberal man will both give and spend in the right amounts on the right objects” (Aristotle, 35). It can be argued that Robin Hood’s spending on the poor people who need it would be a right thing to spend his money on. I would agree. Aristotle goes on and says, “he will also take the right amount from the right sources” (35). Can it be agreed that the means that Robin Hood took to achieve the money was right? Some would say yes and some would say no. This, however, is not the argument I want to focus on. I want to focus on the question of did Robin Hood steal the right amounts or did he steal too much? Some would say that because of who he was stealing from it was the right amount. Others would say that Robin Hood took excess so he is not in the right but in the wrong.

The second connection I made was with designer labels. If you know me, I like practicality and efficiency. To me designer labels are neither. There is nothing necessarily wrong with designer labels. They are defiantly an art. But to me the price is too much for a piece of clothing that I will inevitably mess up. This was not my point so let me get back on track. I made the connection to designer labels when Aristotle said, “he will consider how the result can be made most beautiful and most becoming than for how cheaply it can be made” (37).  This statement immediately made me think of designer labels. This statement could also be connected to any kind of art. 

P.s. I commented on Haley Riddle’s and Isabelle’s posts.