Aristotle claims that happiness (flourishing or living well) is a complete and sufficient good. This implies that it is desired for the sake of happiness with no capability of being evil in any way. There are many avenues in which happiness can be achieved and Aristotle delves into some of these examples – pleasure, comfort etc. He specifically mentions the life of gratification, money making, political action and the philosophical life. Aristotle doesn’t necessarily agree …showed first 75 words of 737 total…

…showed last 75 words of 737 total…and temperance relate to feelings of passion, magnanimity and generosity relates to external traits, and truthfulness and friendliness deal with social life. I tend to disagree with the idea that we need to be “trained” to attain virtue. This implies that society or some outside force has to determine what is good and what is bad. It doesn’t allow the individual to seek and find truth for themselves and therefore finding what is virtuous.