Aristotle’s Happiness Theory Of Reflection And Reconstruction

Happiness is that human being assiduously seeks through countless people happiness for debate and discussion, and what is happiness without a definite or form a certain conclusion. As one of the centers of human civilization in ancient Greece, Aristotle, what is happiness has carried on the deep discussion. He was in the inheritance and development of the ancient Greek sophists happiness theory with Socrates and Plato’s theory on the basis of the established their own thoughts, believe that happiness is not a simple happiness, but on learning and training to obtain. In this paper, the philosopher Aristotle before the content in the study theory of happiness, and explore the Aristotle’s happiness theory of content, and then systematically happiness theory of Aristotle and criticize, and finally to reconstruct the happiness theory.Ancient Greek sophists’ pursuits of happiness are mostly sensual pleasure such as on debate and satiated with food and win the happiness of others. Socrates and Plato’s happiness theory about happiness is good, is to rely on to achieve virtue, Socrates put forward virtue is knowledge, Plato put forward four theory are for happiness theory in this paper. Aristotle clearly and systematically expounds the theory of happiness. First is the analysis of the relationship of goodness and happiness, think of each activity are good purpose, do everything good as people of internal standard. But happiness is the highest good and the highest aim of man. The performance of the happiness is living well and a good. Have pointed out that happiness is a virtue life or for the implementation of the virtue of the soul. The second is the judgment standard of happiness. Aristotle think happiness is achieved through learning and training, not by psychological get can get, happiness is need to be done in practice rational judgment, tathagata choice or follow the principle of tathagata was able to get well. Is once again demonstrated the relationship between the happiness and joy, and for the highest happiness. Aristotle think happiness is easy to get, and it is not easy to get happiness, happiness is higher than that of happy, because it is difficult to obtain, and lasting more than happiness, and noble. In for three kinds of life, that is, in the enjoyment of life, political life and the lives of meditation for comparison, he thinks meditation of life is the highest life, is the life, to live, is the supreme happiness. The last is the condition to realize the happiness. Aristotle think happiness get to the health of the body, character, rational, friends, noble character and so on to achieve, including one of the most important condition is that need is the ancient Greek citizens, children, slaves and women are eligible for happiness.Aristotle’s happiness theory has a certain value, also has certain limitations. Its value is that happiness is a virtue life or happiness is suitable for the implementation of the virtue of the soul. Sent the gain and the cultivation of virtue of happiness together and Pay attention to the unity of the happiness and virtue, To talk about the content of the happiness from the perspective of rational, for later utilitarianism and Kant’s theory is of great enlightenment. Its limitations is too pay attention to the unity of the city-state happiness and personal happiness, think of polis happiness is greater than the personal happiness, happiness will meditation is thought to be the highest happiness, makes the happiness with the mystical color, happy object is the ancient Greek citizens, others did not obtain qualifications and conditions. Based on this, for the reconstruction of the happiness theory, from the whole understanding of the person, happiness will contain the perceptual and the rational factors, emotional aspects including eat, wear, live, line, and the joy and happiness, the rational aspect is to use rational to pursue and grasp. The condition to realize the happiness including equality, freedom, health, knowledge, culture, rational ability, moral quality, environmental factors such as social work. Happiness should be both rational and emotional content is for the understanding of the real happiness, it can also help counter the current understanding of the simple happiness.