Which thinker got the title King?

Alexander the Great, as a student of Aristotle, has often been described as a philosopher king. His contemporary Onesicritus spoke of him as a "philosopher in arms", and the 1st-century Platonist Plutarch wrote in laudatory terms of his wisdom, generosity, temperance and courage.

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Thereof, why was socrates drinking hemlock?

In 399 BC, Greek philosopher Socrates was found guilty of corrupting the youthful minds and for not believing in the gods of the state. He was sentenced to death and forced to drink an infusion of poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). What makes human excellent? Since the ability to reason (deliberate over courses of action and choose on the basis of those deliberations) is the one capacity or function which separates humans from other animals, being rational is our defining quality, our "final cause," our "telos." The excellent human is the one who in actuality does reason

What is the ultimate end of man?

beatitude But contrary to this: Man's ultimate end is beatitude (beatitudo), which, as Augustine says, everyone desires. But as Augustine says in 83 Quaestiones, "It does not befit animals that lack reason to be blessed (beata)." Is there an ultimate end of human life? For human beings in general, Aristotle suggests that the ultimate end or good is happiness, and that happiness itself is living in accordance with reason and virtue. He arrives at this conclusion by differentiating the function of human beings from the function of all other living things.

Accordingly, what is the highest good and happiness for aquinas?

Perfect happiness, which is possible only in the life to come, consists in contemplation of the Divine Essence, which is goodness. Imperfect happiness can be lost, but perfect happiness cannot. Neither man nor any creature can attain final happiness through his natural powers.