The ultimate goal in human activity is to achieve, through reason in virtues, happiness, a state desirable in itself for no other reason. ... Since virtues are vices which help man attain happiness and man has to go through a life of thought and reason to reach the median of these virtues, happiness is "an activity of the soul" (Aristotle 12). It's a lifelong process of learn and experience to obtain the median of a virtue therefore through the life span the soul has searched happiness because they have searched the mean of the virtue. Aristotle says that happiness is the ultim...

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For Aristotle's Closing statement he said "And so the human good [happiness] proves to be activity of the soul in accord with virtue, and indeed with the best and most complete virtue, if there are more virtues than one". ... "Of the [part of the soul] that has reason. ... "Moreover, we take the human function to be a certain kind of life, and take this life to be activity and actions of the soul that involve reason; hence the function of the excellent man is to do this well and finely" (109a12-16). To draw his speech to a close Aristotle concludes "And so t...

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The soul can be divided into a rational and irrational part. The rational part of the soul controls the impulses, so one with greater rationality is able to control his impulses better. The irrational soul has two aspects: a part that deals with nutrition and growth and has little connection with virtue, and the part with governs one's impulses. ... In the article Aristotle states "activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete" (Aristotle, 4). ... He believes that, "happiness is an activity o...

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