The Commentary On Aristotle's Theory Of Happiness And The Effect On The Modern Society

Happiness is not only an ancient topic but also a hot topic in every phase of philosopy. Almost all thinker around the world have expounded it. Aristotle is one of them who have had comprehensive and profound understanding about happiness. In the living conditions of ancient Grecian polis, based on the ideological resources of early thinkers such as Plato, he put forward a Happiness which start from complete virtue and achieve by complete implement of virtue. Thereout, he improved and developed the Virtue Happiness to a peak. Heretofore, Aristotle's Happiness have been studied by the scholars at home and abroad. And most studies of them were based on the The Nichomachean Ethics. Most of foreign scholars were argue on the viewpoints between covered and rational of it. And other scholars thought there were not any coherent viewpoint of Aristotle on Happiness. The great mass of studies on Aristotle's Happiness in our country were comprehending and translation of The Nichomachean Ethics. Contents about Aristotle's Happiness in many literatures of History of Philosophy in our country were retailing of the treatise of that in The Nichomachean Ethics. Papers about Aristotle's Happiness in domestic periodicals was localized on the Virtue Happiness. And the concepts of Politics and Realistic Activity hava not been recognized. The Virtue of Aristotle was the virtue with profound meaning and guidance to people's entirely development. Therefore, the study on Aristotle's Happiness should be based on the inheriting of profound understanding on Virtue Happiness of predecessors and entire grasp on the abundant content and realistic meaning of it by our further profound discussion on the concept of Realistic Activity. At the same time, combining the tradition and actuality of domestic Happiness with it and discussing the correlative problems to obtain the Enlightenment of how to create a harmonious social well-being.We researched the academic and realistic origin of Aristotle's Happiness by study the literature about the development of philosophy in ancient Greece. We realized the basic contents and profound meaning of Aristotle's Happiness by unscrambling his literatures ( The Nichomachean Ethics and Politics). Moreover, reading the thinking works of happiness on different periods and relevant literatures to study profoundly on the effect of the produce of Aristotle's Happiness. On the basis of that, comparing Aristotle's happiness with happiness of ancient China and combining with China's status to shape a harmonious society concept of happiness.The paper consists of five parts. In the first part, we analyzed the times background of the produce of Aristotle's Happiness, and its the discussion of theoretical and realistic origins was concluded in this part. On the basis of that, the second part analysis the content and features of happiness in Aristotle's Happiness, and proposed the perspective that the fundamental concept of happiness is perfect and pleasure, wealth, honour does not mean happiness. The basic theories of Aristotle's Happiness was analyzed in the third part, including happiness is entirely consistent with the reality of virtue, we must adhere to the principle of the golden mean, and so forth. on the basis of analysis Happiness of the ethic's pursuit of happiness lies in the successful realization of virtue to explore the theory of Virtue Happiness generated a profound impact on future. And in the forth part, we analyzed the effect of The Aristotle's Virtue Happiness on later generations. The main route of this impact is roughly from the Andean of ancient Greece to the medieval scholastic philosophy representatives Thomas?Acqui, to the Modern Bower and giant Macinwiki. In the last part, we discussed the similarities and differences between the rationale of the China's ancient concept of Happiness and Aristotles'Happiness, and analyzed the status about Happiness in China, to ponder how to figure that our new form of a harmonious society under the concept of Happiness.