Nichomachean Ethics

Happiness can be the chief good of morality. According to Aristotle and John Stuart Mill, happiness is the end or chief good of morality. Aristotle argues that happiness is the chief good of morality because everything a person will do leads to being happy. Every action performed by a person is aimed toward a good happiness. In Aristotle’s “Nichomachean Ethics” Aristotle argues that man must complete his job or duty in order to reach happiness. When trying to obtain happiness, man must be doing an activity that is unique to a human. Both philosophers agreed that humans have a higher level for happiness. In Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” he explains that every action that a human performs is aimed at a good. Throughout his writings he contemplated
In this writing, Mill argues that happiness is a whole and you have to do many things to achieve it. Mill believes in the principle of Utility, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness.” (Mill, 7) This happiness that Mill describes is pleasure, which is the absent of pain. Along with this, Mill also explains that something that brings out the most pleasure and brings out the pleasure in the most people is considered something good. He argues that if you are searching for pleasure and it brings any amount of pain, you should stop doing that activity. Also, if you are doing something and it is hurting others around you, you should also stop. This theory states that the good of others must be considered when trying to achieve
Happiness to me seems like the only logical end for a human being. Many people go throughout their everyday lives doing things to try to make themselves happy. People do things for an end result, which is happiness. Happiness is definitely the chief good because humans go out of their way to achieve it. People do not go out of their way to achieve unhappiness. However, a human cannot always be happy. While searching for happiness, there will be some points that will bring pain. Those disappointments will help a person to search for happiness more. The search for happiness will help lead a person to true happiness. According to Aristotle, “Happiness is something we have to learn.” If a human has to learn what happiness is through their life, that would mean that happiness is the chief good. As a human grows up, happiness is learned more from experience. Also, a human being needs to have virtue, or the act of doing something excellently. This also involves friendship because friendship is necessary to live a virtuous life. Through virtues, a human can reach