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.
Should We Desire Eureka/Aha? The Pursuit of Eureka!/Aha!
Does Eureka!/Aha! keep us from living living? No, a Eureka!/Aha! moment does not move us from living. Rather a Eureka!/Aha! moment results from participation with life.
Happiness, Working of the Soul in Perfect Excellence
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Moreover, since Happiness is a kind of working of the soul in the way of perfect Excellence, we must inquire concerning Excellence:
Complete Virtue and a Complete Life Constitute Happiness
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – For to constitute Happiness, there must be, as we have said, complete virtue and a complete life
Happiness – The Chief Good – Aristotle
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Now of the Chief Good (i.e. of Happiness) men seem to form their notions from the different modes of life, as we might naturally expect