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Aristotle's Good Life Today

Aristotle believed that achieving a good life and happiness requires living virtuously according to moral standards. He argued that humans should strive for moral excellence through virtues. While some modern people define a good life through financial stability and material possessions, Aristotle's view that true happiness comes from living with high moral principles still applies today.

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Aristotle's Good Life Today

Aristotle believed that achieving a good life and happiness requires living virtuously according to moral standards. He argued that humans should strive for moral excellence through virtues. While some modern people define a good life through financial stability and material possessions, Aristotle's view that true happiness comes from living with high moral principles still applies today.

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November 14, 2020

What does Aristotle say about the Good Life? Does it still stand in the contemporary
world?

Aristotle’s aim for us is to lead what he called a “good life and achieve happiness.
According to him, a “Good Life is a Virtuous Life” which means having a good life is
having happiness or prosperity which can be accomplished by living a life according to
virtue which is achieved by continually living in a virtuous manner or living with high
moral standards. We should live for a plan that helps us to determine our various purpose
in life. Moreover, to live a good life is what we ought to be as a human being - moral
agents who strive for moral excellence. And this good life could only be achieved by the
following virtues. He believes that good for humans is the maximum realization of what
was unique for humans.

I believe that this MUST still stands in the contemporary world because most of us
are being eaten by material things. Nowadays, many people defined a good life if you are
financially stable, rich with material possessions, and able to do whatever you want.
What we’ve missed is the true meaning of a “good life” that happiness is not just for
having material things but living a life that is consistent with having high moral
standards.

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