Happiness Theory Of Aristotle

Aristotle is the ancient greeks first encyclopedic character, his profound thought for later development laid the important foundation of western thought, especially his ethics thought has been a major influence. Aristotle proposed by his deep wisdom and answered the question: how can we have a really belong to people’s lives. Happiness does not depend on wealth, honor, such as external goodness, and lies in the realization of the nature of the activities, the rational function, activity and eudaimonia is realized. We are in the age of material abundance, also is the era of the serious lack of the spirit world, where we need to go back to philosopher, to find the right path to happiness. Guided by the historical materialism, this paper adopts the methods of literature analysis, the problem by going back to Aristotle tries to seek happiness, understand what true happiness is, how to get happiness. And combining the current status of domestic happiness, explore the path to build correct outlook in China. This thesis is divided into four most. The first part from Aristotle happiness life background and theoretical sources of the formation, to analyze their ideas form the basis of happiness. The second part of the content of the happiness of Aristotle parsing, separately from the essence of Aristotle’s happiness and tries to achieve the conditions of the two aspects are discussed. The third part, by Aristotle, contemporary mainstream happiness happiness happiness and Chinese traditional respectively, to its the advantages and limitations of happiness make evaluation. The fourth part, through the above of Aristotle’s happiness, and combine the domestic current situation of the concept of, from different levels to explore, build a scientific and complete happiness path that is beneficial to establish a correct outlook of contemporary enlightenment in our country. By discussing Aristotle happiness not only helps to build correct outlook on life, and will promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization in our country, promote the development of the socialist moral and move forward. Aristotle, in his unique perspective, as we talk, let us use rational to think what is happiness, and how to get happiness. Facing material abundance and lack of contemporary well-being, it is necessary for us to Aristotle’s happiness ideas, set up the correct outlook on, convert wealth maximization to maximize happiness. And combined with domestic actual situation, this paper discusses how to build a happy harmonious socialist society, realize the human, harmony between man and society in harmony.