Eighth Topic:
All of us are familiar with Aristotle; he made great contributions in philosophy, mathematics, politics, logic and many more. He is considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Base from the book, Aristotle argues that all human seek happiness and for him happiness is not pleasure, wealth or honor but rather the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
Well we are talking about happiness in this chapter; it is good if we know what the meaning of happiness is. Happiness according to Wikipedia is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. But in the book, happiness is somehow connected with our soul, so in order to achieve happiness our soul and our personality must be significant to one another. An example is if a person achieved their goals and dreams in life then for sure their personality and soul is filled with happiness since they worked hard to achieve it and they know in their selves that it wouldn’t be easy to do all those things. Next is virtue, according to Wikipedia, virtue “is a character trait or quality valued as being always good in and of itself”. Well there are two kinds of virtue, moral virtue and intellectual virtue. Moral virtue comes from training or habit, and state of character whether excess and deficiency. An example is courage, if a person has an excess of courage then they are in terms of extreme rashness and if they lack courage then they are cowardice. Intellectual virtue produces the most perfect happiness and can be found in the activity of reason or contemplation.
