WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle uses the Greek term eudaimonia to capture the state that we experience if we fully achieve a good life. According to Aristotle, eudaimonia is the state that all humans should aim for as it is the aim and end of human existence. To reach this state, we must ourselves act in accordance with reason.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Aristotle’s ethical theory, the virtuous person exhibits the joint excellence of reason and of character. The virtuous person not only knows what the good thing to do is, she is also emotionally attached to it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The rule of reason is first promulgated in Plato’s Republic, which argues that the individual soul and the city have an analogous tripartite structure and that the city and the soul should each be ruled by its respective rational part.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle’s ethics is sometimes referred to as “virtue ethics” since its focus is not on the moral weight of duties or obligations, but on the development of character and the acquiring of defined virtues such as courage, justice, temperance, benevolence, and prudence.

Detailed explanation-5: -Abstract. According to Aristotle, all human functions contribute to eudaimonia, ‘happiness’. Happiness is an exclusively human good; it exists in rational activity of soul conforming to virtue. This rational activity is viewed as the supreme end of action, and so as man’s perfect and self-sufficient end.