What does Aristotle theory about happiness say?
Aristotle theory of happiness.... Aristotle states that happiness is the highest good. To elaborate this, that there are said to be many items that are good, but goods pursued for their own sake are of a higher good than goods pursued for the sake of something else. The highest good can not be improved by the addition of anything else. The highest good is desirable for itself, is not desirable for the sake of another good, and all other goods are desirable for its sake. Happiness the only good pursued solely for itself, and is as end of itself. Honor is external, wealth is a means of further ends, and pleasurable life does not equate to a 'happy' life. Humans are unique to animals due to their ability to be rational. Humans that live with good reason are good humans. In order for something to be good requires virtue. Therefore, in order to live well we must use reason virtuously. Aristotle http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristo... Good day!!
Aristotle on happiness and virtue?
Can you explain to me why Aristotle believes the happiness requires virtue? I'm trying to understand it and I'm having difficulty. Also, can you give an account of his ethics and give his definition for virtue and for happiness? Thanks in advance
Aristotle Ethics happiness?
Aristotle talks about happiness, which he thinks of as the first principle of ethics. Why is this so important? Is it possible to be mistaken about the nature and/or the requirements of happiness? What is Aristotle’s opinion on this?
Is Aristotle's notion of happiness objective or subjective?
Aristotle believed that happiness rests within an absolutely final and self-sufficient end. From virtue alone does true happiness arise. Hedonic acts or instant pleasures do not constitute true happiness. Thus, in Aristotle's view, a criminal who seeks instant gratification at the expense of others is not truly happy. This view would be objective in the sense that there is a defined meaning to this "end." The path that one takes to achieve happiness, however, is subjective.
Why do some people find happiness and others do not?
I'm not exactly sure where to go now, I'm 20 still living with my parents but I feel happy, and no I don't think about this everyday or at all actually just figured I ask, I'm not the kind to let others despair stop my happiness.But right now, I have a Job I can tolerate, I have my own money, My future tho I can't see it looks bright once I figure out how to save money and stuff. I have the Nintendo 3ds I wanted, I still have lots of high school friends in my life, I have overwatch one of my favorite games ever, I got my 3ds back with my own money after accidentally breaking my last one. I'm not even entirely sure what to do next cause I only make 400$ every 2 weeks but I'm happy I literally have everything I want, even my goal to end corporal punishment is going very successful everything is going my way, (please give reasons besides god….….)Tho I haven't finished my life long goal of eradicating even the smallest forms of child abuse, nor have I mastered these stupid powers of mine, I can honestly say I'm satisfied with my life, why can I and no in else?
Why does Aristotle think the life of money making cannot be a good life?
Nichomachean Ethics, I.5: “The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”Money is only good for what it can buy. But Aristotle does not think headlong acquisition of stuff conduces to happiness: a mixture of virtue and prosperity make for that condition of flourishing he calls eudaimonia, which is the end of all human striving.In this Aristotle differed from his teacher Plato. Plato (chiefly the Platonic Socrates) argues for what might be called the “Sufficiency of Virtue Thesis”: virtue in and of itself is sufficient for happiness. A virtuous person is happy irrespective of any material consideration. Starving? Being tortured? The virtuous man is still happy.Aristotle, in effect, calls bullshit. For him, eudaimonia requires both virtue and a modicum of physical comfort and well-being (and the freedom needed to spend time philosophizing). For him virtue is a necessary but not sufficient condition for human flourishing.The American obsession with lucre, with the acquisition of more money than one could ever possibly spend, without satiety and without the cessation of one’s labors to pursue the life of the mind and the arts of peace, would have struck Aristotle as perverse, stupid, and utterly incompatible with happiness. Money is only good for what it can buy: food, drink, the oikos and its maintenance, and above all, freedom to pursue what matters (“liberal arts” are “liberal” because they were the province of the “liberated”). The hoarding characteristic of the American plutocrat would strike him as an obsession with means at the expense of the end.