The Opinion Of The Highest Good In Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics

In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle did the most important study of personal morality and the various potential paths one can make in life. Through this essay I will discuss his conception of the highest good by exploring what exactly he means by “highest good”, why he does think that the highest good exists and this highest good is the happiness. I will also give his definition of happiness and how it is related to moral virtue .i will explain in final why I think his point of view of happiness is adequate.

Based on Aristotle argues, the functionality of something is the task that this “something” is made for it and that something is good when it fulfills its performance well. For instance the function of a knife is to cut, therefore a good knife should cut well; the function of an eye is to see, therefore a good eye should see well. Furthermore, Aristotle focused his thought on the human being and the functionality of human. He argued that human function is reasoning, therefore in order for a human being to perform well it must have a rational

Continuing upon this argue, Aristotle observed that whatever people do, the end result they wish to achieve is always the same: happiness. He even makes the point that “collecting butterflies, or climbing mountains, or reading lots of books” is always done for the sake of making that person happy. He argued that happiness is a rational activity that belongs to human functionality, it is pursued for its own sake, it is sufficient and it is the common denominator of all these varied activities that we accomplish; therefore, it must be the end of all the reasons, the highest good for the human being