Saturday, March 23, 2019
Happiness in Nicomachean Ethics and Living the Rule of St. Benedict Tod
Essay written by Elizabeth SippelFrom pursuing pleasure to avoiding pain, deportment seems to ultimately beabout achieving happiness. However, how to define and obtainhappiness has and continues to be a widely debated issue. InNicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives his view on happiness. According toAristotle, various types of people pursue different decisions. The many, orordinary people, pursue pleasure, whereas politicians try on glory. However,people of superior refinement seek happiness. Happiness is the highestgoal because it is an end desired entirely for its own sake, and it is selfsufficient. In order to define happiness, the figure out of man must be considered.Aristotle says that what makes man unique is his ability to reason. indeedreason must be connected to happiness in round way. Aristotle furtherargues that virtue is also tied to happiness. Virtue can be categorized aseither intellectual or chaste. Intellectual virtue, as the name suggests,corresponds to the reas oning self. Moral virtue, on the other hand,corresponds to the desiring self. Thus moral vi...
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