Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: On Pleasure

Philosophy and Culture 29 (5):469-484 (2002)
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Aristotle defined happiness as "a soul to follow to achieve perfect virtue of the activities." Most people would agree that happiness is the ultimate goal of human behavior, but happiness is the ultimate goal of a factor for this is a different view. In the history of philosophy, a little discussion of ethics experts in opposition to the human race when the pursuit of happiness as a rational desire, which, Aristotle has taken the opposite view. In the "Nicomachean Ethics" inside, for the happiness implies a criterion to distinguish Aristotle to distinguish those happy is good, that pleasure is bad. The establishment of standards, making it the desire for happiness is rational, and thus the resulting standards will help filter out the joy of the realization of our activities even more successful

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