Aristotle said that "the Gods activity that is superior in blessedness is the activity of study...and human life is blessed to the extent that it has something resembling this sort of activity"" (Nicomachean Ethics 356). ... "Since happiness is a certain sort of activity in the soul in accord with complete virtue, we must examine virtue; for that will perhaps be a way to study virtue better"" (Nicomachean Ethics 264). This observation leads Aristotle to analyze virtue as it relates to the soul. ... In book VI (Nicomachean Ethics), Aristotle combines his examination of virtue with his examinat...

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