We all strive for happiness. According to Aristotle it is the ONLY thing we want for it’s own sake. Everything else we do is in order to be happy - in one way or another. But happiness is not a simple concept. Aristotle distinguished between four different levels of happiness. Happine...
1The Four Levels of Happiness © May 2014 Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. Magis Center of Reason and Faith Introduction Aristotle noted at the beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics that happiness is the one thing you can choose for itself — everything else is chosen for the sake of hap...
c.325 BCE Greek philosopher Aristotle names four sources of happiness: sensual(感官的) (hedone), material (propraietari), ethical (ethikos), and logical (dialogike). AFTER 1543 Anatomist Andreas Vesalius publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body in Italy. It illustrates Galen’s errors and ...
BEFORE c.400 BCE Greek physician Hippocrates says that the qualities of the four elements are reflected in body fluids. c.325 BCE Greek philosopher Aristotle names four sources of happiness: sensual(感官的) (hedone), material (propraietari), ethical (ethikos), and logical (d...
lost in a mind-territory of fantasized entitlement. They aren’t androids ready to work on some non-existent assembly line. They’re just lost. They’re riddled with self-esteem that doesn’t work. They’re consumers looking for magic credit so they can buy their way into happiness. They...
Things are "just" which produce happiness (eudaimonia) in the political community (koinōnia), commanding virtues and forbidding wickedness (5.1.13, 1129b). Justice is, then, "perfect (teleia) virtue" but one displayed toward other people (5.1.15, 1129b). Besides this general sense there ...