Happiness, According to Aristotle
Why Aristotle considered happiness to be the 'goal of all goals' and how he recommended we attain it.
Happiness is surprisingly quite a polarizing subject in the philosophical world.
The moment I wrote the line above, I actually laughed a bit. I take that back - everything is a polarizing subject within the philosophical world.
Today, I’ll be sharing part one of a three part series with you. The series, which will be shared over the course of the next three weeks, will explore the topic of happiness from the viewpoints of three different philosophers; Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Robert Nozick. Each of these philosophers offer a radically different approach than the next, and I found it interesting to learn more about how they each approached arguably one of the most desired emotions amongst humans. For thinkers such as Aristotle, happiness equated to being the ‘goal of all goals’, or in other words, the key to living a fulfilled life. For others, such as Nietzsche, an overemphasis on happiness was considered to be dangerous, as he illustrates within his example of The Last Man…