Aristotle – Happiness Is Co-extensive with Contemplative Speculation
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Happiness then is co-extensive with this Contemplative Speculation
Perfect Happiness Must Be a Kind of Contemplative Working
Our conception of the gods is that they are above all blessed and happy: now what kind of Moral actions are we to attribute to them?
We Toil for Rest and War to have Peace: Happiness is at Rest
Also, Happiness is thought to stand in perfect rest; for we toil that we may rest, and war that we may be at peace. Now all the Practical Virtues require either society or war for their Working, and the actions regarding these are thought to exclude rest; those of war entirely, because no one chooses […]
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Excellence in Science is Confessedly Most Pleasant
At least the pursuit of Science is thought to contain Pleasures admirable for purity and permanence
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Pleasure, Good and Happiness
First, because we maintained that Moral Virtue and Moral Vice are both concerned with Pains and Pleasures
Preserving Happiness for the Social Community is the Just
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – in one way we mean by Just, those things which are apt to produce and preserve happiness and its ingredients for the social community.