In the first five chapters and seven through eight of the first book from the Ethica Nicomachea, Aristotle has four main points. The book itself is broken into thirteen chapters, but this Précis will summarize only chapters one through five and seven through eight. The first point is who should study ethics and how one should approach it ? The second point is defining encomia or happiness. The third point is the questions and problems regarding to the definition of happiness. The fourth point is defining happiness to the discussion of virtue which is the introduction to the subject of ethics itself. Ultimately, the overall argument is what is the purpose of human life? Aristotle’s answer to the argument of the human’s purpose to live is to
