help please
2007-02-05 02:26:42 · 5 answers · asked by jeopardy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
In a nutshell, Aristotle thinks that one can be happy if one lives in accordance with reason. Aristotle makes a distinction between moral and intellectual virtues. Morals virtues encompass courage, wit or pride (among others). Intellectual virtues entail using one's mind to contemplate truth or intuit basic axioms. Read Nicomachean Ethics 10.6-7. You will find that Aristotle ties our happiness to the deployment of reason. He would argue that one cannot be happy without pursuing truth for the sake of truth.
2007-02-05 03:37:29 · answer #1 · answered by sokrates 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi - I am not a great scholar ... and I did not find "chapter & verse" for a specific
quote ..... however he seems to be recommending a good character, good temper, self respect & self love, morality and a sense of ethics as a basis for living and therefore happiness..... he also is clear, according to what I read (quickly) on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ...about indicating what is the opposite affect: unhappiness, bad lifetime..
Being the daughter of someone who was always reading philosophy, let me just say that it is not always so easy to get to the pith of the works of the philosophers if you read other people's estimates.... you need to do your own reading and to juggle the theories into some form of statement for yourself.... whew! ... what a complex way of saying it. Sorry!
Peace & Love
2007-02-05 02:53:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
He was such an observant person and a deep thinker that I believe one would need to constantly examine the very small while contemplating the infinite in order to be "happy" from his point of view.
2007-02-05 02:36:41 · answer #3 · answered by Nightstalker1967 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness cannot be acquired from another's point of view but from one's own!
2007-02-05 02:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are looking for happiness, I am human, therefore I'm looking for happiness.
I don't think any syllogism will help you find happiness, but remember; when happiness seems faraway, there's always happity!0!
Or you can keep looking!
2007-02-05 03:04:20 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋