What Is The Good Life?

Through the ages, happiness has become the topic which the people pay attention. Because of different age and different habitation, people have different explanation to happiness, and form the different outlook on life, world outlook and outlook on values. 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. By contrary, people felt more confusion and emptiness, especially in today's emergence of the phenomenon of moral decline, people can not find the meet point between the morality and happiness. It is in this context, we are concerned about the happiness of Aristotle.Aristotle's happiness thought is not only personal wisdom, but also a product of that time. He inherited former thinkers' theoretical results and conceived his happiness thought. His happiness thought is round system. He systemically discussed what happiness is, happiness and perfect, happiness and virtue, happiness and pleasure. He thinks happiness is the perfect, and happiness is also the ultimate goal of all acts. At the relationship between happiness and virtue, he thinks happiness is a reality events according with virtue, and he concerns the relationship between happy and morality. The people whose acts accord with ethics will get most happiness. At the relationship between happiness and morality, he doesn't agree with the idea that happiness equals pleasure, and he thinks pleasure is a internal experience and concomitant.Aristotle has formed a set of characteristic happiness theory system, with human nature as the logical starting point. From teleology he expatiated in reality action people must follow the principle of "middle way" and achieve happiness. Though his 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. Under moral problems increasing, his happiness theory tells people what is right happiness.This article expatiated happiness is necessary from Aristotle's time background, and discussed happy meaning, happy characteristic and how to achieve happiness. His happiness thought has a practical significance. In such a pluralistic society, his idea still has its existence value, and it directs how to form right happy view.