The Modern Values Of Happiness In Nicomachean Ethics

With the improvement of economy, the “happy” life has not come. People become aware that happy life is not associated with economic conditions. Which decisive factors effect happy life? And what is the relationship between these factors? How should people organize their lives in order to achieve real happiness? And so on.The series of problems are need to be answered particulaly.Happiness is an ancient important issue. As a famous philosopher, Aristotle pay more attention to this issues.He spend a lot of space to mention happiness in Nicomachean Ethics,learning Plato whose happiness thoughts critically, and put foward that we could perfect virtue to achieve happiness. His theory on eudemonism developed to a peak.Based on the research of domestic and foreign scholars research on the Nicomachean Ethicsin the paper of The Modern Values of happiness in Nicomachean Ethics,the author do a systematic study of Nicomachean Ethics happiness theory, concluded that Nicomachean Ethics happiness theory is virtue happniss. In spite of Nicomachean Ethics happiness theory beyond two-dimensional of rational and emotional, and constructing happiness on a real life, there is a inherent contradictions in it :happniss is conditional and the self-sufficiency. In fact, this is exactly reflect the class nature of Aristotle : civilian achieve happiness is conditional, and achieve a happy life nobility is unconditional. Despite exist this deficiency, there is great significance today. It warns people that the happy life of groups is a guarrantee to personal happy life, the decisive role of personal happiness is together in the virtue. There is no relation of luxury life and personal happiness.