A Study On Aristotle's Happiness Under The View Of People-oriented

Aristotle's happiness idea is inheritance and development of happiness thoughts of eminent thinkersof his times and before the era, it's best to embody the people-oriented thought, is the ancient Greeksthought of the synthesizer on the WEST, the happiness of one far beyond one who had reached the peakbefore Marx.The essence of the people-oriented thought permeates in Aristotle's happiness thought of each part,penetrates in happiness connotation discussion, also infiltrates in the happiness realization approach. Onthe discussion of the first category of happiness connotation of" the highest good" namely" perfection",demonstrated that the happiness is the highest goal in the all activities purpose to pursue; demonstratedgood of happiness is specific good, is the soul of intrinsic good, and through to the three major lifeevaluation, preliminary shows his humanistic thought. On the discussion about connotation of the essenceof happiness, from the five dimensions shows that essence of the people-oriented thought: happiness is thehappiness of static dynamic unification;" happiness" definition displays human's essence, theory ofhappiness is achieved; the possibility of happiness is owned all of the" people"," citizen"; happiness ischeerful from the nature of human; happiness is complete, self-contained. On the discussion in avenue ofhappiness realization, humanistic thought fulfill very specifically. Discussion in moderation, both in thedefinition of the connotation or the ultimate goal, shows humanistic thought. External good discussion,showing Aristotle's unification of objective and subjective well-being thought, is material and dialecticalthought. On the discussion about friends, leisure, wealth, law, government, education and soon…humanistic thought to take care of the people, to pay close attention to realization of people's virtueand capture of happiness permeates from beginning to end. Comparative study on subpopulations after happy thoughts, reveals the Aristotle happiness in thethought of humanistic factors, make we see Aristotle happiness the inheritance of the thought and theessence of value. The Hellenistic period the happy thought, is partial to the personal attention and extremeor hedonism, either Chongde abstinence virtuous. The medieval concept of happiness is the humanisticconcept of happiness, goddess light, to suppress the people's pursuit of happiness, happiness lies in theafterlife, endure earthly oppression and exploitation, including all the suffering, is the pursuit of happiness,the people of paralysis in rebellion against the spiritual opium, is reactionary, is on the opposite side ofhistory of thought. Marx's theory of happiness, is critical in medieval anti human happiness on the basis oftheory of happiness, showed its historical progress. Marx's happiness is the thinking of happiness theory inthe history of science, the greatest happiness ideas, is to correctly and reasonably discard and absorb all thehappiness view of history, the widest object of his theories, the essence of the most profound grasped, thelabor and the human nature to achieve the profound elaboration, display the most profound and thoroughhumanism.The essence of Aristotle's happiness idea, to our country the current construction of the socialistharmonious society is great significant. Chinese traditional happiness thought is broad and profound, hasthe glorious ancient part of the essence, however, its limitations are very obvious, the Taoist View offreedom, negative, Confucian concept of happiness" blind loyalty""fool righteousness", the Buddhistconcept of happiness to veto reality and purse illusory world, all of these are to despise humanity origneous. Aristotle's virtue happiness realization theory; personal happiness and social well-being unifiedtheory of happiness, provides us to correctly discard and absorb traditional Chinese theory of happinessand the contemporary theory of happiness a powerful weapon. This is Aristotle's happy thought andpositive aspect of the enlightenment to us. But, the limitation of Aristotle's happiness thought, also reminds us to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, constructing the science view of happiness, so thatour harmonious society develops better and faster than before.