![]() ![]() Now some thought that apart from these many goods there is another which is self-subsistent and causes the goodness of all these as well. ![]() For the former think it is some plain and obvious thing, like pleasure, wealth, or honor they differ, however, from one another- and often even the same man identifies it with different things, with health when he is ill, with wealth when he is poor but, conscious of their ignorance, they admire those who proclaim some great ideal that is above their comprehension. Verbally there is very general agreement for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise. state, in view of the fact that all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some good, what it is that we say political science aims at and what is the highest of all goods achievable by action. He thinks there is at least a little value in each of the popular conceptions.] ( eudaimonia) found among his fellow Greeks. ![]() [In chapters 4 and 5, Aristotle describes the variety of conceptions of happiness August 6, 2002īoldface emphasis and bracketed comments are my additions.- JG Ross Excerpt reproduced here for educational purposes only. ![]() Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I, 1 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethicsīook I, chapters 4-7 (excerpts) Translated by W. ![]()
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