Review Questions:

1.) What is happiness, according to Aristotle? How is it related to virtue? How is it related to pleasure?

He said that happiness must be in some form of a contemplation but for him living a contemplative life doesn't mean that a man should be deprived of or should deprive himself external things, material things, because by nature we need those external prosperities to be healthy . Our bodies need food and other attentions as well for we are human beings. He also said that we shouldn't think that for a man to be happy he should need many things nor too little just like what he termed it to be -- the extremes and the intermediate. We must have the right amount of things for ourselves, right amount of pleasures -- the mean. Man can't be supremely happy without those external things -- those pleasures. Also to be happy, we should live a virtuous life. Be noble and we should excell or make better ourselves in the track that we have chosen for example THERE is this doctor and there is this GOOD DOCTOR. There is a difference between the two. Among the two, he said that we should be this GOOD DOCTOR and to put our knowledge into action for the this doctor has the knowledge to be a doctor yet he doesn't exert much effort nor actions compared to the GOOD DOCTOR. Also the life according to reason is the best and pleasantest life and also the happiest for reason more than anything else is MAN.

2.) How does Aristotle explain moral virtue? Give some examples.

He said that moral virtue is a product of consistent training or out of the habit of doing it and that moral virtue is not something innate in us or something arises in us by nature but rather we are adapted by our nature to have them and made perfect by our habit for example... When I was born, I didn't atomatically believe things about God nor do I know Him but because my family is a devouted Catholic (my nature) my parents taught me how to read a Bible, how to pray the rosary, and things like that. They have introduced me to the Roman Catholic world and by habit (of praying, hearing mass, etc) then I have become fully aware of it.

3.) Is it possible for everyone in our society to be happy, as Aristotle explains it? if not, who cannot be happy?

 Yes. Everyone can be happy if they just put everything in the right context of happiness like they should live a contemplative life -- moderate amount of external pleausres and do noble things WITHOUT conquering the lands and the seas for IT'LL BE TOO MUCH and evil-ish if they do it so. Those people who can't be happy are those who have the knowledge yet preferred to be mundane and don't dream of excelling in their fields -- those that don;t have actions. Also people who have an excess amount of money (God given) yet preferred to not share it with people -- greedy ones and those people that only think money, power, material things, the likes would make him happy.

Discussion Questions:

1. Aristotle characterizes a life of pleasure as a suitable for beasts. But what, if anything, is wrong with a life of pleasure?

I have learned and convinced with what Aristotle said... You have to have the moderate amount of everything including the pleasures. There is nothing wrong with a life of pleasure for as long as you know how to use it wisely and for as long as you moderate everything.

2. Aristotle claims that the philosopher will be happier than anyone else. Why is this? Do you agree or not?

For me I agree. I am a great fan of wisdom and new learnings as them though of course they are really the supremes and I am the shy type LOL . I believe that this is true for a man of knowledge could be a great teacher of knowledge and nowadays you have to be like them and think like them. They could be happier in the sense that many envies them for not all of us can be as great as those philosophers especially those who have been recognized for their findigs, for their works, for their opinions.

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