Can_Happiness_Be_Achieved_By_Chance_

Can Happiness Be Achieved By Chance' Happiness is defined as “something final and self-sufficient and the end of our actions,” (P to D p.191 lines19-20). Happiness is not only a feeling; it is a means to an end and the result of goodness. However, where and how happiness is found, varies among the different philosophies. Can happiness be achieved by chance' No, happiness can not be reached by chance since it is only part of a proper function of man. Goodness “is the cause of knowledge and truth,” (P to D p133 lines 508e) therefore to be good is to be truthful and virtuous. When one reaches the state of Goodness one reaches happiness but, chance plays a part in this. For example, when I study as it is supposed since I am a student attending a college; I have completed part of my function and I will in return expect an excellent performance for whatever subject it is I am studying for. This completes Aristotle’s philosophy that “if a function is well performed in accordance with the excellence appropriate to it: we reach the conclusion that the good of man is an activity of the soul in conformity with the excellence or virtue.”(P to D p191 happiness, chance, therefore, since, good, found, socrates, part, just, honorable, man, jail, function, truth, taken, society, justice, happy, goodness, doing, change, being, athens, am, truthful, studying, student, staying, state, same, relationship, reaches, plays, p191, opinion, one