Criteria for Happiness in Nicomachean Ethics I 7 and X 6–8

Classical Quarterly 40 (2):421-432 (1990)
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In I 7 Aristotle lays down criteria for what is to count as human happiness. Happiness for man is self-sufficient, complete without qualification, peculiar to humans, excellent, and best and most complete. Many interpreters agree that in X 6–8 Aristotle uses these along with other criteria to disqualify the life of amusement and rank one happy life above another.

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