Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Aristotle tries explain to us what the ultimate goal of the human life. He says that every activity we participate in has and ultimate goal or an end. He states that happiness is the ultimate goal in life and that every activity we engage in our daily lives is to achieve happiness. Since all activities we engage in have an end then he says that happiness is the highest of all ends. So as human beings the goal of life is to achieve the highest of all ends. Happiness is
According to Aristotle, everything we do in life, we do for the sake of some good, or at least something we perceive to be good. We call an act good if it satisfies a certain need. The satisfaction of this need is then considered good if it is a means for satisfying some further need, and this in turn is good if it will satisfy still another need. Sooner or later this process reaches a point where it is no longer a means for some further end but is an end in itself. This final end is what Aristotle means
instance, Plato discusses the subject of justice by arguing that justice is what allows people to live excellently. In contrast, Aristotle discusses happiness by arguing that acquiring virtues enables people to achieve the ultimate goal of happiness. What is the meaning of the terms justice and happiness? The term happiness could be elucidated as a satisfaction from goals achieved or from one’s status. Analogously, the term justice is defined as a quality of becoming fair. It is notable that different
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the concept of happiness is introduced as the ultimate good one can achieve in life as well as the ultimate goal of human existence. As Aristotle goes on to further define happiness, one can see that his concept is much different from the 21st-century view. Aristotelian happiness can be achieved through choosing to live the contemplative life, which would naturally encompass moralistic virtue. This differs significantly from the modern view of happiness, which
reasons. Happiness is an unending topic of discussion in philosophy. This paper explores the similarities and differences in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism to coin a position in whether or not happiness is the ultimate end that human society aspires to acquire. In a critique of both the works, the paper adopts the Aristotelian thought citing that actions of human aims to fulfill goodness, which arguably is the happiness, one that arises from virtues practiced out
The ultimate goal of human life for Plato is to know and understand the truth or the “eidos” of the “good”. The only way for us to see this truth is through our minds. The truth is not accessible in the physical world but in the intellectual realm. For us to be happy or for use to know the truth is only when we are beyond our physical sense it is a totally different level. So according to Plato, “knowledge” and “virtue” are corollary meaning that as long as one exists the other will follow. He
actions performed by humans aim to gain happiness, happiness is the ultimate end, and that happiness is greatly determined by moral and intellectual virtues. However, I will discuss how some believe that his doctrine of the mean lacks the direction of how one achieves equilibrium of the virtues. In addition, I will explain how Aristotle’s ethics, in fact, does give sufficient advice of how a person can live virtuously. Firstly, Aristotle points out that all activities whether they be physical or mental
THE MEANING OF HAPPINESS ACCORDING TO AL-FĀRĀBI AND ARISTOTLE As we know, happiness is something that each of us want to achieve it in our life. Nobody from us want a biiter life. Nobody want tears in their life. Everyone should put the happiness as their goals in their life. According to dictionary, happiness means enjoyment, good fortune, pleasure, contentment and so on. It is mean the quality or state to being happy too. As an example, a mother and father will surely happy if their son success
When it comes to happiness there are various answers as each person and philosopher like Aristotle, Hedonics and contemporary viewers like me all have different views and definition. When searching for the word “happiness” on google it is defined as “the state of being happy”. But many questions, how do we achieve this so-called happiness? Philosophers like Aristotle believes that happiness is the goal of the human life and is attainable thorough our actions. Hedonics believes that happiness is based
happiness includes obtaining love within their life, obtaining a variety of friends, obtaining a stable job, or achieving a particular goal. There are individuals, who conclude that the completion of a specific desire would generate happiness in their lifetime, but this is not always factual. Typically, once someone completes their wish, they proceed to the next goal, without even appreciating and celebrating their accomplishment.