Aristotle

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle describes several aspects of life and the way that it should be led. This book is a compilation of notes that he had written with no intention of being published. Therefore there will naturally be some changes on his views depending on what he had experienced through the time that passed since he first started writing these notes. In the beginning of the text, Aristotle explains a life of excellence being one where the person is happy. Later on into the book however he contradicts himself slightly from his previous writings. He states some rules that a human must follow to have a good life. By the end of his writings the reader is left with one true answer to having a good life. This is the life of the philosopher. Aristotle believes that a man can reach ultimate happiness by being in touch with the divine part of himself, his mind. This is the argument that he best presents in his Nicomachean Ethics for his conflicting views on e...