Contemplative life vs active life aristotle biography
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Contemplative life aristotle
Aristotle’s understanding of happiness and its relation to the active life
Aristotle’s starting point of his discussion of happiness can be found in Book One, Chapters 1-10 of Nicomachean Ethics, where he discusses the relation between the good of an action/decision, for instance, and its goal or purpose.
Aristotle argues that all human activity aims or attains at least some good associated with it. It is not so difficult, therefore, to connect happiness with what most people consider it is good. This point is central because it constitutes one of the supporting arguments for Aristotle’s discussion that the goal or purpose of human life is reaching happiness.
Although people can observe that there are many purposes and goods and that those purposes can even be subordinated to other aims or can be an end in themselves, Aristoteles thinks there must exist an ultimate supreme good which does not have a sake for something else.
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