Summary Of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

The purpose of the Nicomachean Ethics is to discover the human good, that at which we ought to aim in life and action. Aristotle’s point of view on the nature of happiness was the nature of happiness is connected with the nature of man. Nature doesn’t work around man, man works around nature. No human can singly change the way nature works but if humans are not connecting with nature then nature changes. Happiness is the greatest thing in the world and people can easily find it or go to hell and back to find it. Men find happiness in some of the strangest was but they find it. For example a flute player or any artisan, their good in a good performance seems to be false in the performance of a function in which it would appear to be with man, only if there are any function of a man. Meaning that just
Even supposing that human beings do have a function, it is unclear why the good for a human being should reside in the good performance of the human function. Granted that a human being who performs the human function well is a good human being. It could be understood in two senses, one as pertaining to obedience to reason and as pertaining to the possession of reason and the use of intelligence and the latter as well is spoken of in two senses. We must take the one which has to do with action, meaning we must take the higher one as men. If the function of man is an activity of the soul according to reason or not without reason, and we say that the function of a thing and of a good thing are generically the same way all other cases. The superiority of virtue being attributed to the function that of a lyre-player being to play, that of a good one being to play well. The good for man becomes an activity of the soul in accordance with the best and most perfect. In a complete life for one to swallow does not make it spring nor one day and so single day or a short time does not make a man blessed or