Aristotle
In this paper I will explain thoroughly happiness and I will also examine the question of whether a person can be called happy before their death. First I will examine how Aristotle came to the conclusion that happiness is what human actions should ultimately strive for. Aristotle first starts off by explaining why every human action strives towards a certain good or perfection. The morally good action is the moderate action between excess and deficiency. For instance, liberality would be the best action between prodigality and thriftiness. Also, the intellectually best action would be perfection of a certain skill. For example, an architect would want to master house building. He then makes it clear that human action, if it to be of any use, has to have an ultimate goal where everything else is performed for the sake of it. Human life has to have a final aim or man is just a victim of endless desires that never reach completion. Aristotle sums this up with an analogy, “Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?” Then He concludes the first section of book 1 by saying that politics has to be the art of this final goal, because politics will se
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Approximate Word count = 2399
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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