Aristotle's Argument On Human Good

In Aristotle 's argument for the ultimate human good and how it relates to virtue is not so much a search for good for goods sake but for the highest good that a human being can ascertain in that persons experience and travels in life. So then how is it that Aristotle argument has validity to an over all understanding or relation to virtue? It is not an easy philosophical quandary to disseminate considering other philosophers have studied Aristotle 's teachings and spent the most part of their careers arguing against (in cases) this very prose. Then if one were to attempt to justify Aristotle 's argument that it would seem that, fist we must understand that in Aristotle 's mind that ethics is not a theoretical concept but an attempt to a more complete understanding of human good. This is to say if a person is better to understand human good it is not simply because to know human good in a quantified understanding is the end goal, or for the simple sake of knowledge but rather a process to that understanding. It is further assumed that a list of human …show more content…
What these three characteristic have in regards to human good is that in the end from Aristotle 's perspective is that a person does not live ethically or well for some sort of goal later on but rather from a understanding of positive virtues such as obtaining resources, ones health, and a better financial situation for example. This is not the real reason that a person aspires for the higher human good, but for the over all happiness obtained from these virtues is what drives a person or to put in another way a sense of personal hedonism is the driving factor or goal to why a person strives for a higher