| Happiness is always an eternal topic.From ancient to modern times,everyone is eager to happiness and find happiness,the pursuit of happiness has never stopped.30 years of reform and opening up,the contemporary Chinese people are enjoying the steady growth of economy,the remarkable improvement of their living standards and the efficient and convenient work and life,but they still feel unhappy.“There is no development of happiness” has become the people’s livelihood China facing contemporary.People are more sensitised to the happiness of life is not closely related with the material lives whether good or not.So,what is the meaning of happiness?What are the conditions to achieve happiness? What principles do people need to follow in the process of achieving happiness? What should be done to construct the scientific concept of happiness? These series of questions need to be answered urgently in the contemporary China.Study on the concept of happiness can be traced back to ancient Greece.In ancient Greece,Aristotle discussed on the concept of happiness was fully deserved the most profound and systematic philosopher and ethicist.He criticized the inheritance of Solon,Plato and Socrates’ view of happiness,to build a more harmonious,self-consistent view of happiness theory system and form more objective,scientific,comprehensive,logical and rigorous view of happiness,reached the peak values of the theory of happiness.His ethics system originated from the“happiness” of the questioning,and finally put the “happiness” as the foothold.He defined happiness as a practical activity of a perfect soul of virtue,which is one of the highest good.The dominant moral reality activity is happiness and happiness consists in doing good things in all one’s life.And also one must follow the principles of justice,mean and love,also need good external appropriate supplementary conditions.In all the performance,nothing can compare with the realistic activities of virtue even the valiant record.Therefore,people want to achieve happiness,they must cultivate excellent,noble,excellent virtue,and make full use of the virtues to guide the practical activities in reality.In today’s society,it is necessary for everyone to re-examine Aristotle’s view of happiness,so as to obtain a useful reference and inspiration,to provide people with a scientific reference in the pursuit of happiness on the road.This thesis consists of five parts.The introduction is the first part,which mainly introduces the research status at home and abroad and the significance of the research.The second part analyzes the time background of Aristotle’s view of happiness and ideological source of the formation to examine the formation of Aristotle’s view of happiness through the real social picture.The time background mainly through the analysis of Aristotle’s life and his peculiar bumpy twists and turns of the ancient Greek city-state society to carry on the elaboration and at the same time we can make clear the ideological origins of Aristotle’s view of happiness through the interpretationof the thought of happiness from Solon,Socrates,Plato etc.In the third part,the thesis interprets the main content of Aristotle’s happiness from the meaning of happiness,the conditions and the principles to achieve happiness.The fourth part judges and evaluates Aristotle’s concept of happiness.First overall grasp the status of the concept of happiness in Aristotle’s ethical thought,and then affirm the value of the concept of happiness and point out the defects to persuade people to examine Aristotle’s view of happiness in a fair and objective manner,to correctly recognize its value and defects,so as to excavate its referential value and in order to gain more beneficial enlightenment to modern people.The fifth part is the conclusion. |
