Nicomachean Ethics Book 10 Quotes

So then happiness is manifestly something focal and self sufficient being the end of all things which are and may be done.

Nicomachean ethics book 10 quotes. Some people think presenting pleasure as base will improve people s conduct since common people are slaves to pleasures and may find a more moderate state if they avoid pleasure altogether. Aristotle the nicomachean ethics. Happiness reasons real purpose.

Book 10 chapter 6. Only those pleasures enjoyed by a good person and for the right reasons are good. Pleasure perfects our activities and since life itself is an activity pleasure is essential to life.

But the ends that are sought appear to differ. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra a goal or a philosophy by which we live. It is choiceworthy in its own right if nothing further apart from happiness is sought.

Aristotle the nicomachean ethics 7. One swallow does not make a summer neither does one fine day. Nicomachean ethics quotes.

That is why some people were right to describe the good as what everything seeks. Since happiness is the end of human striving it s necessary to discuss the nature of happiness a bit further. Some are activities and others are products apart from the activities.

Rather pleasure accompanies the activity of any of our faculties like the senses or the mind when they are working at their best. First happiness is an activity not a state. Aristotle will spend the rest of the ethics proving this statement.