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Aristotle on Happiness and Virtue

Aristotle discusses happiness and virtue in this chapter. He argues that true happiness is found through living a virtuous life and experiencing pleasure, not from wealth alone which is only useful for other ends. The chapter also examines moral virtue and how Aristotle explains it is related to basic human nature. While everyone has a right to pursue happiness, circumstances like death may sometimes cause sadness, but true happiness comes from living virtuously rather than seeking pleasure alone.

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Aristotle on Happiness and Virtue

Aristotle discusses happiness and virtue in this chapter. He argues that true happiness is found through living a virtuous life and experiencing pleasure, not from wealth alone which is only useful for other ends. The chapter also examines moral virtue and how Aristotle explains it is related to basic human nature. While everyone has a right to pursue happiness, circumstances like death may sometimes cause sadness, but true happiness comes from living virtuously rather than seeking pleasure alone.

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Chapter 8

Title: Aristotle: Happiness and Virtue

Quote: “The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is
evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something
else.” -Aristotle

Expectations: I expect to learn more about the moral virtue of this chapter.

Book Review:
Aristotle the author of this chapter discussed about happiness of a person. Everybody has right to have a
happy life, there are some cases where they can be sad, like a cause of death of a relative, when that happens it
would definitely cause sadness in a human’s life. Happiness could not always applied in a person even though the
richest person in the would get sad. They can’t buy real friendship, real love and of course air. You can achieve
happiness by having pleasure over something.

Things I have learned:


I learned that Aristotle has contributed more than I have expected.

Integrity Questions:
1.) Who is Aristotle?
2.) What did Aristotle contribute?
3.) What did Aristotle argued?
4.) What lesson can be learned in this chapter?
5.) Are there any other characters mention in this chapter?

Review Questions:
1.) What is happiness, according to Aristotle? How is it related to virtue? How is it related
to pleasure?

- Happiness is where you get pleasure out of something.

2.) How does Aristotle explain moral virtue?

- The virtue what Aristotle has explained was all about the nature of somebody which
related to some basics in a human’s life.
3.) Is it possible for everyone in our society to be happy, as Aristotle explains? If not, who
cannot be happy?

- I is possible that everyone can be happy, there are some examples where someone
would not be happy, like a cause of death in a family.

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

- Aristotle characterized a life of pleasure as suitable for beast. For my opinion, I think
if there are problems, we need to solve it by ourselves.

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

- I agree, all philosophers who would claim it, would be really happy.

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