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MEHELet’s Check – Activity 6
1. Good Life
2. Eudaimonia
3. Happiness
4. Aristotle
5. Happiness
6. Law
7. Virtuous actions
8. Virtue
9. Intellectual Virtue
10. Moral Virtue
Let’s Analyze
1. In your opinion, what constitutes a good life?
It is up to each person to determine what constitutes a good life. However, a good life
usually involves doing right thing for the others, being humane and compassionate,
being efficient, and having a sense of meaning and purpose. Instead of materialistic
things, aim for life experience.
2. What does Aristotle say about the good life? How would you relate the Aristotelian
concept of good life with the contemporary world?
Happiness and living a good life, according to Aristotle, are all about virtue. He regards
the end of humanity as the good life. Having a good life, according to him, is having
happiness or flourishing, which can be attained by living a good life according to virtue,
which is attained by consistently living in a righteous fashion or choosing to live with
morality.
The Aristotelian concept must still be applied in the contemporary world as the people
of today only thinks that possessing valuable materials is the true way of living a good
life. They completely forget that happiness and applying morality/ high moral standards
is the best way of living a good life.
3. How does the progress in science and technology contribute towards the attainment
of good life?
The discovery of new things helps individuals to lead a good life allows science and
technology to utilize it to the fullest. The opportunity to apply science makes it possible
as we’re already in the modern day where modern problems require modern solutions.
Thus, we can access a lot of information we need to complete our daily life, cure
diseases by conducting experiments and finding the right cure, and lastly, the chance to
explore things to share it to the world where everyone can benefit it in the good
manner.
In a Nutshell
2. The word "good life" pertains to a (highly desired) condition chained by a high quality of life
or conformity to ethical and legal laws. Having to live the good life can be classified into two
categories: as an ample lifestyle packed of materialistic things, or as an effort to survive life in
line with the accepted, moral, acceptable, and spiritual regulations of one's race or continent.
As such, the term can refer to both the pursuit of wealth, personal possessions, or luxury items
and the pursuit of a valuable, genuine, and interesting life.
3. Happiness, as per Aristotle, takes the form in obtaining all the goods — wellbeing, prosperity,
expertise, acquaintances, etc. — which give rise to the goodness of human behaviour and the
improvement of human existence over the course of time. This justifies making decisions, many
of which will be challenging.