What Is A Good Life? PDF

Everyone is in pursuit of the good life. We do certain things we want, to achieve a life which will make us happy and contented. By studying and working hard, we try to attain this goal not only for ourselves but also for our loved ones and the rest of humanity. People’s definition of the good life...

Everyone is in pursuit of the good life. We do certain things we want, to achieve a life which will make us happy and contented. By studying and working hard, we try to attain this goal not only for ourselves but also for our loved ones and the rest of humanity. People’s definition of the good life may vary and differ in the particulars.  “All human activities aim at some good. Every art and human inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has been rightly declared as that at which all things aim. (Nicomachean Ethics 2:2)” ARISTOTLE 384 - 322 BC  The word came from It is a flourishing life EUDAIMONIA the Greek word “eu” “… both the many and filled with meaning “good” and The ancient meaningful cultivated call it happiness Greeks called daimon means endeavors that and suppose living well and “spirit”. Taken this concept of empower the together, it generally doing well are the same as “living well and refers to the good human person to be being happy” (Nicomachean the best version of doing well”. life, which is marked himself/herself. Ethics 1:4). by happiness and excellence.  Example 1. Example 2. If one is a student, If one is an then he/she acts The good is expressed and manifested in many athlete, then to be the best he/she strived to version of a various ways for different persons and be the best student by circumstances. The good life, however, is more version of an studying well and than these countless expressions of what is good. athlete by training fulfilling the hard as well as demands of joining and school. winning in sports competitions. Happiness defines a good life. This happiness, however, is not the kind that comes from sensate pleasures. It is that which come “Now such a thing as happiness above all else, is held from living of virtue, a life of to be; for this we choose always for itself and never for excellence, manifested from the the sake of something else, but honor, pleasure, reason, personal to global scale. and every virtue we choose indeed for themselves, but we choose them also for the sake of happiness, judging that by means of them we shall be happy. Happiness, on the other hand, no one choose for anything other than itself”. (Nicomachean Ethics 2:7).  1. Aristotle also stated in 2. Nicomachean Ethics: It is the activities that Taking care of the Making sure that one express virtue that environment through avoids sugary and control happiness, and proper waste processed food to keep the contrary activities management which healthy is an activity that that control its contrary results in a clean expresses virtue. The (Nicomachean Ethics environment and adds to resulting health adds to 1:10). people’s well-being and one’s well-being and happiness. happiness. Aristotle also stated in Nicomachean Ethics: “Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes its birth and growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while the moral virtues comes about as a result of habit” (Nicomachean Ethics 2:1). It is cultivated It is the constant It is the with habit and practice of the excellence of discipline as it is good no matter character that not a one-time how difficult the empowers deed, but a circumstances one to do and constant and may be. be good. consistent series of actions.  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE GOOD LIFE The onward Science and progress of Science and technology may They allow us to science and technology are also corrupt a technology is one of the thrive and person, but also the highest grounding flourish in life if movement expressions of oneself in virtue towards the human faculties. we so desire it. will help him/her good life. steer clear of danger.