Eudaimonia

Collin Laguzza PL215-TAY Paper A 10/8/2015 Aristotle attempts to identify what the greatest good for mankind truly is in his Nicomachean Ethics. To do so, Aristotle asks himself how we can live our lives while giving meaning at the same time. He directs the answer by looking at an end, more so, a purposeful life with a goal. For instance, the purpose of medication is to seek good health. It is the end result that matters most. So what exactly is this goal that is an end in itself? Happiness is…

In order to have a life full of joy you must maintaincontroloverhappiness.Inordertoachievealifefull of joy one must maintain complete control of life. Once you acquire complete control of happiness all sadness and hate will leave the body and life will be outstanding. Happiness depends upon ourselves. We are in control of our own happiness because one has the choice to see the good out of every…

They say happiness is a derivative of money, fame, and quantity of possessions you own. This is an assumption that is made by many of us in today’s society. People have a different variety of things that make them happy and what makes one person happy might not make the next person. Some people live for money, their goal is to make as much as they possibly can and buy all the best things in the world. This raises the question. Can money buy happiness? Another is fame, some people will do…

Almost all people, when asked, will confess that one of their biggest goals in life is to be happy, but when does that dream start to have a detrimental effect on people? Barry Schwartz proposed the theory, “happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing...but happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.” While this quote can be interpreted in various ways, it sends a compelling message that happiness as the sole objective in a person’s life leaves room for failure, can become…

Happiness will once have been achieved in everyone's life. The journey to achieving happiness is to be created in a way that is only true to the person trying to achieve it. Gabriele Muccino, the director of the film The Pursuit of Happyness, helps to visually create the interpretation of true happiness in a man through Chris Gardner’s success. The director uses the famous phrase from Declaration of Independence about one’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to emphasize the…

Both wealth and power is interminable but our life is limited and the time wasted chasing those never-ending resources will result in feeling melancholy, loss of enthusiasm, lack in tranquility and Narcissism. Only those who are satisfied with what they have can find happiness in life. Not everyone is born with equal opportunities but those who tend to make the best out of it and enjoy it, can find joy in their life. “Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness” (13) as Nick Carraway…

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle primarily defines happiness as being the ultimate end in one’s life through the accordance of complete virtue. This means that happiness can only be achieved at the end of one’s life because happiness is not a temporary state, but a goal. I suggest that happiness can be achieved sooner than this. Aristotle describes the three types goods which are divided by the external, the soul and the body (Nicomachean Ethics 1098 b13). Our actions is what the…

The Pursuit of Happiness For an individual, the pursuit of happiness is ultimately their end goal in life. Unfortunately some compromise their happiness and in turn, are unable to live fulfilling lives. This is most common from a root cause of the mind, where the individual themselves prevent the growth and development of their own happiness. In the modern drama “Death of a Salesman”, the author Arthur Miller details the effects of the mind and one’s own choices that stem from it, and how it…

The Highest good is Happiness. The researcher and professor of psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes in his essay “ Happiness Revisited” about how people seek happiness and desire to be happy. However, the happiness that everyone is so strongly seeking and aiming for most of the life cannot be bought with money, nor is it something that just happens. As Csikszentmihalyi writes, “ It is not something that money can buy or power command” (608). In the other words, Csikszentmihalyi is…

People may think they are happy in life where they stand now, but what is it that is making that one person happy. Is it their style of living, the money they have, or even just being able to satisfy their needs? In the essay, “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” the author Emily Esfanani Smith highlights ethos, logos, and pathos to show what makes one happy. The first rhetorical device that was used was ethos. For example one way that the author used this device was by using a story in the…