Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Analysis
Many people believe that happiness comes from pleasure that earth has to offer or doing something that entertains a person and that makes a person think they are fulfilled. Aristotle thinks this is not true happiness but those are things that make the body think it is happy. In Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle explains what happiness is and how it is found. He explains the point of seeking happiness and the correct way of doing it. Lastly, he explains what the role of virtues play in the life of a happy man and gives the answer to the big question what is man’s function. When anyone does anything the main reason they do it is because of an ultimate good they want something good or a good result that gives them happiness. People go to college because
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In book ten this question is answered and Aristotle tells us that to be able to answer the real happiness of a person is by what they are contemplating. What makes a human unique is the ability to rationalize and this makes them different from animals. What a person contemplates and finds pleasure to this is a man’s function. If man can find contemplation in the right things, at the right time, with the right object, at the best condition, and best sense than this person is experiencing what man’s function is. The pleasure that the virtues man feels is choosing to the good over anything else because that is what he likes and finds happiness. A person needs to find pleasure in what they contemplate because if the person doesn’t feel something emotional towards what they are contemplating than the person is not really contemplating anything because there is nothing productive taking out of it. Happiness is seen as an activity because a person cannot experience happiness if they are in a comma or dead. This is not possible the person needs to be alive and well doing living and experiencing this happiness. These activities need to be desired by the person to truly say that they are happy. The true virtues person will feel it and act in what he finds pleasure in because it is the right thing to
In book ten this question is answered and Aristotle tells us that to be able to answer the real happiness of a person is by what they are contemplating. What makes a human unique is the ability to rationalize and this makes them different from animals. What a person contemplates and finds pleasure to this is a man’s function. If man can find contemplation in the right things, at the right time, with the right object, at the best condition, and best sense than this person is experiencing what man’s function is. The pleasure that the virtues man feels is choosing to the good over anything else because that is what he likes and finds happiness. A person needs to find pleasure in what they contemplate because if the person doesn’t feel something emotional towards what they are contemplating than the person is not really contemplating anything because there is nothing productive taking out of it. Happiness is seen as an activity because a person cannot experience happiness if they are in a comma or dead. This is not possible the person needs to be alive and well doing living and experiencing this happiness. These activities need to be desired by the person to truly say that they are happy. The true virtues person will feel it and act in what he finds pleasure in because it is the right thing to