Eudaimonia

An Analytical Validation to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics makes the claim that if there lie preliminary ambitions in an individual’s life then they exist as simple means to an ultimate and specific objective in order to serve a purpose for the individual’s life. Morality, virtue, and ethics are further examined to assert that the root of the underlying objective is something that can neither be disposed or deposed by another man; but that a man must find…

How does one find true happiness? Is it found in the accumulation of power, wealth and fame? Is it in finding the love of your life, or having a beautiful family? Or will a good and fulfilling job bring you the best type of happiness? When you come to think about it, people are faced with different sets of circumstances and situations, yet each one manages to find joy in whatever they are given. What may seem important to one, may have no value to another. What may be fulfilling to some may be…

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics The human experience of the Nicomachean Ethics is about finding happiness. The difference between Aristotle’s versions of happiness and what happiness is viewed like today is large. It is common for people in today’s society to think happiness is pleasure. Aristotle and the Athenians viewed happiness as a way of life and one can determine if they have had a happy life by a sum of all his days not just one day. Aristotle uses the example at one point “For one swallow…

Charles Spurgeon one said “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Happiness is not something that just happens to you. It either comes from you being a giver or a taker. Either way you find happiness by giving things to others or taking things for yourself. The article “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” uses ethos to tell us how we make ourselves happy. The article also uses pathos by telling us stories from a book written by a Holocaust prisoner. Lastly…

People define happiness in many different ways, rather it is from their experiences or their surroundings. The purpose of life is consequently more than the fleeting moments of happiness. The author, Emily Esfahani Smith, of “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” is somewhat persuasive in her use of logos, pathos, and ethos. The first aspect Smith uses is logos. According to the Center for Disease Control, “4 out of 10 Americans have not discovered a satisfying life purpose. Forty percent…

In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle did the most important study of personal morality and the various potential paths one can make in life. Through this essay I will discuss his conception of the highest good. What exactly is the “highest good”? Why does he think that the highest good exists? Why does he think that happiness—and not something else—is the highest good? How does he ultimately define happiness, and how is it related to moral virtue? Why do I think his point of view of happiness is…

As early as infancy you can tell that a person’s goal is to be happy and comfortable. Babies will get disgruntled and cry when hungry, lonely, or in need of a diaper change, but when they are in a comfortable state a smile will appear or a joyous laugh will come out. Searching for this inner peace, understanding, and happiness is a primitive instinct. Individuals from all societies have pursued this tranquil mindset in one way or another since the beginning of time, and many have reached it…

Money can cause happiness and pain in everyday life, whether you have it or not. Take famous people for example, when they got rich and famous they didn’t bring up all their friends. They chose their happiness over their friendships. Memes today have pictures about whether or not you would slap your best friend for a million dollars and then seeing someone getting smacked in the next picture which shows how quickly money can turn your best friend into a paycheck. In “The Pardoner’s Tale” it…

After fear, our journey's next stop is at happiness. Finding happiness, isn't that sums up our entire life? Everything we do in our lives is to achieve that satisfaction or meet that expectation or to be calm and content. All these are what I call the quest for happiness. The problem with us is that we are dependant on others for our happiness. What we need to understand is that happiness is not a physical entity that someone can give us rather it's a state and an elusive one at that. What if…

James Park Professor High Films of Moral Struggle 10/7 Critical Response 3 Many people believe that money is the source of all happiness. However, Aquinas states that although wealth can provide you with material goods, a man’s happiness does not consist of wealth, honor, fame, glory, power, or pleasure. In actuality, material goods can not play a role in a man’s happiness due to the fact that the ultimate goal of a man’s will can not be found in any living thing but God. Before we define…