Happiness

Happiness Happiness What exactly is happiness' According to Aristotle, a well-known philosopher, happiness is the end of political science. Some people believe that it is achieved through wealth, honor, pleasure, or even virtue. Aristotle doesn’t believe that just one of these elements itself has the power to lead to happiness. He argues that wealth cannot constitute it because it is simply a monetary value that can be used only to gain it. He then says that honor cannot make people truly happy because it focuses more on the people that are honoring them. Happiness is not directly experienced through pleasure. As far as virtue, it is not happiness because a person may be virtuous and not apply it to their life. Therefore, Aristotle came to the conclusion that happiness is a combination of all four elements (wealth, honor, pleasure, virtue). He says, “The happy person is one who expresses complete virtue in his activities, with an adequate supply of external goods, not just for any time but for a complete life.” To experience happiness is to express and make use of each of these qualities. Since happiness is the ultimate end of man’s life, happiness, aristotle, voluntary, virtue, person, involuntary, through, says, life, happy, augustine, actions, virtuous, things, pleasure, one, god, both, because, achieved, wealth, virtues, moral, intellectual, honor, believe, agent, according, views, under, people, natural, much, make, made