Aristotle’s Guide To Living Well

[Philosophy Now]

Lawrence Evans contemplates Aristotle’s argument that happiness is the ultimate goal of human life, and that it can best be found in philosophical contemplation.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/151/Aristotles_Guide_To_Living_Well

[Age]

'Lawrence Evans contemplates Aristotle’s argument that happiness is the ultimate goal of human life, and that it can best be found in philosophical contemplation.
Aristotle’s most famous work on ethics is the Nicomachean Ethics, which aims to describe the ultimate end and good for human beings.

One of the most puzzling features of this classic is that Aristotle seems to waver between two views. These are firstly that happiness involves the activity of the moral as well as the intellectual virtues (this is sometimes called ‘inclusivism’ by Aristotle scholars) and secondly that happiness consists in nothing but the intellectual activity of contemplation (sometimes called ‘exclusivism’). In this article I will explore what he says about happiness, and ultimately conclude that for Aristotle perfect happiness indeed consists in philosophical contemplation.'

Happiness is just obtained when the thought, 'I am happy', and/or, 'I feel happy', is made, when it is really meant.

Now, one can not be, and is not, Truly happy when others around it are not happy because of what is being done to them or because they are being deprived of what they need.

[Walker]

Happiness is just obtained when the thought, 'I am happy', and/or, 'I feel happy', is made, when it is really meant.

Happiness is a subtle attitude affecting apprehension. Happiness infuses consciousness as a filter, however, the reactionary analytical attention upon conceptual opposites, that is made possible by the involuntary dualistic filter that mirrors physical bilateral symmetry, roots out opposites by discovering badness in the good until the worrywart finds itself cured of happiness.

Now, one can not be, and is not, Truly happy when others around it are not happy because of what is being done to them or because they are being deprived of what they need.

Servicing needs makes happy for those on the frequency that may or may not be shared by the receiver of the service, because some folks are just never happy unless making someone miserable.

[Age]

Happiness is just obtained when the thought, 'I am happy', and/or, 'I feel happy', is made, when it is really meant.

Happiness is a subtle attitude affecting apprehension.

Happiness is one of the 450 or so emotions. Full stop.

What you just claimed needs elaboration and further explaining. you are just making complex what is essentially absolute simplicity. As you show and prove further below.

Happiness infuses consciousness as a filter, however, the reactionary analytical attention upon conceptual opposites, that is made possible by the involuntary dualistic filter that mirrors physical bilateral symmetry, roots out opposites by discovering badness in the good until the worrywart finds itself cured of happiness.

Now, one can not be, and is not, Truly happy when others around it are not happy because of what is being done to them or because they are being deprived of what they need.

Servicing needs makes happy for those on the frequency that may or may not be shared by the receiver of the service, because some folks are just never happy unless making someone miserable.

Only adults are like that. And, none has to so-call 'service' needs, because needs do not need servicing.

[Walker]

Happiness is one of the 450 or so emotions. Full stop.

That's a lot of frequencies. I heard somewhere that Buddha gave eighty-eight thousand teachings, which is a lot of frequencies for the same message.

I’ve noticed that goodness such as that displayed by the link you will have to find to view (experience), requires lightness, which requires speed, which requires energy, which transmits happiness to those on the happy frequency, which also pertains to the music of life.

Johnny B. Goode, the original - YouTube

[Age]

Happiness is one of the 450 or so emotions. Full stop.

That's a lot of frequencies.

Absolutely every thing is relative to the observer. So, if that is a lot, to you, then okay.

I heard somewhere that Buddha gave eighty-eight thousand teachings, which is a lot of frequencies for the same message.

I’ve noticed that goodness such as that displayed by the link you will have to find to view (experience), requires lightness, which requires speed, which requires energy, which transmits happiness to those on the happy frequency, which also pertains to the music of life.

Johnny B. Goode, the original - YouTube

No connection.

[Walker]

No connection.

You need to find it yourself.

The song title is all that this here computer will paste from youtube.

[Walker]

What you just claimed needs elaboration and further explaining. you are just making complex what is essentially absolute simplicity. As you show and prove further below.

Happiness infuses consciousness as a filter, however, the reactionary analytical attention upon conceptual opposites, that is made possible by the involuntary dualistic filter that mirrors physical bilateral symmetry, roots out opposites by discovering badness in the good until the worrywart finds itself cured of happiness.

To me, it’s more like summoning the totality of attention, aka presence of awareness, upon something minute, sort of like finding a world in a grain of sand. Assumed importance of the object is irrelevant. Further elaboration and further explaining of anything a'tall can thus fill up a book, if necessary.

[Age]

No connection.

You need to find it yourself.

The song title is all that this here computer will paste from youtube.

you missed the point, again.

[Age]

What you just claimed needs elaboration and further explaining. you are just making complex what is essentially absolute simplicity. As you show and prove further below.

Happiness infuses consciousness as a filter, however, the reactionary analytical attention upon conceptual opposites, that is made possible by the involuntary dualistic filter that mirrors physical bilateral symmetry, roots out opposites by discovering badness in the good until the worrywart finds itself cured of happiness.

To me, it’s more like summoning the totality of attention, aka presence of awareness, upon something minute, sort of like finding a world in a grain of sand. Assumed importance of the object is irrelevant. Further elaboration and further explaining of anything a'tall can thus fill up a book, if necessary.

But it is not necessary. Although you could obviously make things unnecessarily complex, and so fill up a book.

Happiness is just an emotion. Full stop.

[Walker]

Only adults are like that. And, none has to so-call 'service' needs, because needs do not need servicing.

I figure some people need to serve others, the animals, the environment, as a need to tread lightly, as an atonement when no other way is possible, in order to take the next step and you're right about the adult part, since it's the actions in youth that later on in life cause the need to serve, when conscience kicks in.

[Walker]

Happiness is just an emotion. Full stop.

Edit out that word "just," and I think you'll be on to something there, at time in the history of the world, Age.

[Age]

Happiness is just an emotion. Full stop.

Edit out that word "just," and I think you'll be on to something there, at time in the history of the world, Age.

If happiness is not just an emotion, then what else is 'it', then?

Are you at least able to elaborate and explain further, here?

If no, then why not?

[Walker]

Happiness is just an emotion. Full stop.

Edit out that word "just," and I think you'll be on to something there, at time in the history of the world, Age.

If happiness is not just an emotion, then what else is 'it', then?

Happiness infuses consciousness as a filter, however, the reactionary analytical attention upon conceptual opposites, that is made possible by the involuntary dualistic filter that mirrors physical bilateral symmetry, roots out opposites by discovering badness in the good until the worrywart finds itself cured of happiness.

Happiness is a state of mind, which means that happiness is an energetic frequency accessed by the brain receiver as an autonomic reaction to stimuli, which means that happiness is a frequency transmitted by the One Mind, and received by those tuned to the frequency of happiness that is innate to all but corrupted by static in the attic.

The stimuli that generates tuning to the happiness frequency often defies notions of importance, perspective, and causation ... which is why folks accepted Citizen Kane's last word to mean a sled.

[Walker]

No connection.

You need to find it yourself.

The song title is all that this here computer will paste from youtube.

you missed the point, again.

My interpretation of the words was literal, and thus objective.

You cannot connect to the song because no internet connection was provided to a referenced link.
You must either rely on memory to experience the song, or connect to youtube with your own machine, either bought, rented, or borrowed.

Any other interpretation is figurative.