Nicomachean Ethics

Every people has their different meaning of happiness and they will constantly seek for happiness in their life by doing many things that satisfied them. However, most of the happiness that achieved by them are not the real happiness that they are looking for, but instead it is only a pleasure, which can only last for a very short period. This mainly because they never realized about the existence of enduring happiness until the concept is introduced by Aristotle 300 years before century ago. The concept is known as the mean theory and basically it emphasizes on the balance in life in order to achieve a sustainable happiness in life. In the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, he presented the Theory of Mean that guide people to achieve a sustainable
This assertion means that every single steps or works performed by us are able to trigger some good results or something bad that we are not expecting for. For instance, when a person decides to lose weight by eating lightly and only in a small quantity, he may end up getting the body shape that he dreams for or lying on a hospital bed for unbalanced diet. Therefore, Aristotle suggests that a person need to make a decision wisely in order to achieve the goods that they are aiming for. Moreover, he also states that the results for every action performed by different people have many different output. In the Nocomachean Ethics, he clearly gave an example that being a wealthy person or someone with too much courage can bring harm to certain people and also can bring a lot of benefits to the right people. Thus, the thought of making decision should be think more than once because some decision might bring good to other people, but harm to
In our life there is the ultimate good or the “best good” the we keep looking for in order to make our life feel more meaningful. Aristotle defines the “best good” or the ultimate good that human are searching for are the happiness. This is because every targets that human try to achieve actually have the ultimate aim of being happy at the end. For example, the reason for a person to find the tastiest food to eat instead of eating whatever easy to obtain is because he wants to feel happy and and satisfied with the achievement that he managed to accomplish. However, some of happiness that we accomplished is not the happiness that explained by Aristotle. He described happiness is the best feeling that can last for a long period, not feeling happy only for a certain period after completing a small task. Accomplishing small target such as finishing assignments may only lead to pleasure, which only able to remain for only temporary, instead of happiness. Next, Aristotle also emphasized that Political Science is the best good that able to lead to positive results and able to help human to improve their life. Aristotle encourages every single people without considering their status or class to learn Political science since it is a very broad field that able to develop many skills such as strategy planning and economy improvement. The political science is also one of the happiness that