Analysis Of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

not teaching them better. While one might have been raised to know the difference between the right and wrong, who the person begins to associate himself with could change his/ her moral character. In The Nicomachean Ethics without virtues one can not be happy so a life lived making morally wrong decisions is a life that will not see happiness according to Aristotle. An example that best proves Aristotle’s thinking is one of a man losing his dog at a local park. The man searches all over for his dog, but his dog is nowhere to be seen. After hours of searching the man returns home. The dog did in fact run away, but a young mom and her two daughters stopped the dog before it can go any further. Attempting to find who the owner of the dog is,
Though at times some habits might not be the best in all situations, Aristotle brings in the Golden Mean when the habit has become too extreme. The Golden Mean is the action that is taken at the intermediate state between the exorbitant and the insufficient level. When the exorbitant stage falls above the needed action state, and the insufficient stage falls short of the needed action state, the golden mean remains between the two as the action that should be taken in order for it to be morally just. By not doing too much or too little one ensures that they have done the right and just enough thing and that they have remained morally righteous. Being a believer that the ultimate way to gain happiness is through living a life that is morally correct and virtuous, practice along with the Golden Mean become very important, but when pleasure and honor are put into the same picture as happiness, Aristotle takes a closer look. Said by Aristotle“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work,” can be seen from afar. If one does not find happiness and they come to realize that they are doing the bare minimum, they are not receiving the pleasure that brings perfection, but are instead lacking the necessary pleasure to succeed. Holding back from