Nicomachean Ethics By Aristotle Analysis

In Aristotle’s lectures “Nicomachean Ethics,” he says that every action and pursuit is thought to aim at something good. From his lectures I understood that the nature of the universe is infinite because everything people are able to do so many things and the results of those things can be good. In his lectures he says, “If we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity” this helps me understand that the universe has an infinite of opportunities that we must choose one so that we can go on with our lives. Every action and pursuit that a person can has can lead them to different aim that are good but we must choose one so that we can continue with what we want to do.
From the lectures I also understood that in every good result that we achieve from our actions it can answer more than one thing that we want to answer. In the lectures Aristotle says, “The good, therefore, is not some common element answering to one idea.” This lets me know that the universe is so infinite that it allows humans to have many options to the good aims we make to answer the ideas that we may have. There is more than one answer to the ideas that we may have, but it is our choice to pick what good aims we want to have and keep.
When we are self-sufficient we are able to decide with no help from anyone else. In the Selections from Nicomachean Ethics it says, “Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of action.” What I understood from this is that once the human has made an action in a rational way the results are good which make the human happy. When a human has achieved happiness it is because they have done something right that they are proud of. Making an action in a rational way helps humans think by themselves and leads them to make their own decisions which makes them be self-sufficient and as a result they can be