Researching Into Aristotle's Happiness

Happiness is an constant topic in human history,has been affecting people for thousands years.People always pursue happiness,the pursuit of happiness is human fate and human nature.As a well-known ethicist,Aristotle began to pay attention to happiness in thousands of years ago.He related to happiness in his many writings,It can be said that his ethics as starting and end point for happiness。In the materialistic and enjoy prevailing today,we need to explore more ideas of Aristotle's happiness,because it can help people to establish the correct concept of happiness and guide people towards the correct road to happiness.Paper is divided into four parts:The first chapter is an introduction.This chapter introduce mainly why study Aristotle's happiness,the status of domestics and foreign research,research significance.The second chapter introduces Aristotle Happiness of the origin from three areas.Aristotle's Happiness is inseparable from his life that created the unique Greek community,and his concepts are generated based on previous,his views are Based on insights into his life and the universe.Without these three aspects,Aristotle's Happiness can not be perfect.The third chapter is the main part of this article,introduce the main contents of Aristotle's Happiness.This part focuses on"what is happiness","achieve the condition of happiness","how to get happiness". Aristotle think that happiness is goodness,happiness is a activity in line with the reality of the soul,meditation is the greatest happiness;happiness need all kinds of conditions as a supplement,which mainly refers to enternal good,good body and soul good;happiness must be guided by impartial,but also through friends and doing fair things,and research into the relationship between individual happiness and city-state happiness.The fourth chapter is the end of this article,mainly introduce the meaning and limitations of Aristotle's Happiness,which is an innovztion of this article.Integrated previous studies on Aristotle's Happiness,wrirter found that most did not reveal the limitations of Aristotle's Happiness.Aristotle as the most accomplished philosopher and ethicist in the ancient Greek,his thought of happiness has a very important influence on descendants,but at the same time,the limitations of his thought can not be ignored,we must be objective just look at Aristotle's Happiness.