Highest Good
Highest Good
Aristotle maintains that the highest good is ‘happiness’ (‘eudaimonia’ in Greek). Please write an essay about Aristotle’s concept of eduaimonia that answers the following questions:
- What, in your own words, does Aristotle mean by ‘eudaiomonia’?
- For Aristotle, does the highest good of happiness include those moments when you experience intense pleasure? Why or why not?
- If, for Aristotle, eudaimonia is not simply a matter of experiencing pleasure, what else might it involve?
Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600 words long
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Introduction
Aristotle is viewed as a great thinker in both philosophy and the western science history. This is as a result of making major contributions to theatre, biology, logic, botany, physics, politics, medicine, agriculture, dance and ethics. He was the first known thinker or philosopher to classify the human knowledge distinctively into disciplines such as ethics, mathematics and biology (Cooper, 2011). Eudaimonia is a Greek word that Aristotle translates it in English to mean the literal happiness which he argues that it is the highest good of all human beings. This term simply means having good life and being satisfied with whatever one has and the psychological satisfaction of humans. Satisfaction in this situation may be in broader dimensions which include emotional, physical and psychological satisfaction. Happiness is just the word that can have the simplest interpretation of this Greek word but it is not the adequate translation of the word (Engberg-Pedersen, 2012).
Happiness solely depends on our………………..
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