Aristotle Happiness Ideas Explored

In the field of ethics, happiness is an extremely important subject. Aristotle, as a famous utilitarian at the ancient Greek period, has been made an explicit explanation on it. Aristotle, depending on his own time, constructed his happiness theory from several aspects:Aristotle’s Happiness of the origin from his life that created the unique Greek community, his understanding of happiness and the meaning of Aristotle’s Happiness. On the understanding of happiness, he think that happiness is goodness、happiness is a activity in line with the reality of the soul、meditation is the greatest happiness; happiness must be guided by impartial, but also through friends and doing fair things. In today’s market economy, the people’s thought such as materialism, money worship, hedonism, egoism, change people’s pursuit to happiness and people’s understanding to happiness, and money become the value standard which measures happiness. However, people did not feel happy, though they got adequate material wealth. But people felt more confusion and emptiness, especially in today’s emergence of the phenomenon of moral decline; people cannot find the meet point between the morality and happiness. It is in this context, we are concerned about the happiness of Aristotle.Though Aristotle’s Happiness theory is the Product of thousands of years ago and faces the challenges of modern society, it pays more attention to the relationship between happiness and morality. In such a pluralistic society, his idea still has its existence value that can direct how to form right happy view.