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ARISTOLE:HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE

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Aristotle: Happiness and Virtue

1.       What is happiness, according to Aristotle? How is it related to virtue? How is it related to pleasure?

 

Living well, doing well, this is the reason why they love the life of enjoyment. Virtue is described as being asleep a person with virtue is like living a life with happiness because of the life he is living.

 

2.       How does Aristotle explain moral virtue? Give some examples.

 

Moral virtue comes from training and habit, and generally  is a state of character that is a mean between the vices of excess and deficiency. An example of this is I think simply being honest, being patient.

 

3.       Is it possible for everyone in our society to be happy, as Aristotle explains it? If not, who cannot be happy?

 

Yes, it is possible for everyone in society to be happy. Everyone in one point in their lives has experienced this and in their whole life they should have experience happiness consciously or unconsciously

Discussion questions:

1. Aristotle characterizes a life of pleasure as a suitable for beasts. But what, if anything, is wrong with a life of pleasure?

 

a life with pleasure may still have things not going the way they want it in their lives it is always inside a human being if they will accept pleasure in their lives, it is how they treat events in their life things may be good for one person but bad for the other, people have diferent interpretations for plaesure.

 

2. Aristotle claims that the philosopher will be happier than anyone else. Why is this? Do you agree or not?

no, i dont think so, a philosopher is still a person, a human being. and equally we all experience happiness it is just in the manner how we accept, feel happiness a philospher can be happier than another person but not alway he is above the happiness of another, happiness is inside all of us, so it is up to us how we accpet happiness no one can prove that one is happier than another person. we are all equall it is just how we interpret happiness. 

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