Short paper on Aristotle 600-900 words (ASAP)
Aristotle maintains that the highest good is ‘happiness’ (‘eudaimonia’ in Greek). Please write an essay about Aristotle’s concept of eduaimonia that answers the following questions:
- What, in your own words, does Aristotle mean by ‘eudaiomonia’?
- For Aristotle, does the highest good of happiness include those moments when you experience intense pleasure? Why or why not?
- If, for Aristotle, eudaimonia is not simply a matter of experiencing pleasure, what else might it involve?
Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long
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Introduction
Aristotle is viewed as a great thinker in both philosophy and the western science history. This is as a result of making major contributions to theatre, biology, logic, botany, physics, politics, medicine, agriculture, dance and ethics. He was the first known thinker or philosopher to classify the human knowledge distinctively into disciplines such as ethics, mathematics and biology (Cooper, 2011). Eudaimonia is a Greek word…………..
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