The human experience of the Nicomachean Ethics is about finding happiness. The difference between Aristotle’s versions of happiness and what happiness is viewed like today is large. It is common for people in today’s society to think happiness is pleasure. Aristotle and the Athenians viewed happiness as a way of life and one can determine if they have had a happy life by a sum of all his days not just one day. Aristotle uses the example at one point “For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.” (Aristotle) Which means won swallow doesngt make it summer. Happiness for today’s society is a feeling in the Athenian society it
The human experience of the Nicomachean Ethics is about finding happiness. The difference between Aristotle’s versions of happiness and what happiness is viewed like today is large. It is common for people in today’s society to think happiness is pleasure. Aristotle and the Athenians viewed happiness as a way of life and one can determine if they have had a happy life by a sum of all his days not just one day. Aristotle uses the example at one point “For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.” (Aristotle) Which means won swallow doesngt make it summer. Happiness for today’s society is a feeling in the Athenian society it