In this paper I will explain thoroughly happiness and I will also examine the question of whether a person can be called happy before their death.
First I will examine how Aristotle came to the conclusion that happiness is what human actions should ultimately strive for. Aristotle first starts off by explaining why every human action strives towards a certain good or perfection. The morally good action is the moderate action between excess and deficiency. For instance, liberality would be the best action between prodigality and thriftiness. Also, the intellectually best action would be perfection of a certain skill. For example, an architect would want to master house building. He then makes it clear that human action, if it
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