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Happiness and Human Limitations

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Scott Postma
Mar 19, 2022
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Aristotle on Happiness

Happiness, of which Aristotle writes in his Nicomachean Ethics, is more than a pleasant feeling or sense of personal contentment, but the ultimate good toward which everyone should direct his life. The modern English usage of happiness tends to carry a slightly less robust meaning than the Greek word from which it is derived.

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