The metaphor underlying the phrase θεωρητικὸς βίος,

Strangers who went to the Games, traders, competitors, and spectators However, many arguments against them have been disseminated, so we may dismissīack to Pythagoras, who compared the three kinds of men to the three classes of But even they do not really seem to be the Supreme Good Indeed one might conceive the ends before mentioned to have a better claim, for they areĪpproved for their own sakes. Search of, for it is only good as being useful, a means to something else. The Life of Money-making is a constrained 5 kind of life, and clearly wealth is not the Good we are in The third type of life is the Life of Contemplation, which we shall consider in the Pursue this subject, since it has been sufficiently treated in the ordinary Of misery to be happy, unless for the sake of maintaining a paradox. The greatest misery and misfortune- though no one would pronounce a man living a life Into practice throughout the whole of your life and also for the virtuous man to suffer But even virtue proves on examination to be too incomplete to be theĮnd since it appears possible to possess it while you are asleep, or without putting it Of men of action, virtue is a greater good than honor Īnd one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honor is the end of It is clear therefore that in the opinion at all events Honored by men of judgement and by people who know them, that is, they desire to be

Honor seems to be to assure themselves of their own merit at least they seek to be Instinctively feel that the Good must be something proper to its possessor and not easy to To depend on those who confer it more than on him upon whom it is conferred, whereas we But honorĪfter all seems too superficial to be the Good for which we are seeking since it appears Honor-for this may be said to be the end of the Life of Politics. Men of refinement, on the other hand, and men of action think that the Good is The generality of mankind then show themselves toīe utterly slavish, by preferring what is only a life for cattle but they get a hearingįor their view as reasonable because many persons of high position share the feelings of Life of Politics, and thirdly, the Life of Contemplation. Prominent Lives, 2 the one just mentioned, the On the one hand the generality of menĪnd the most vulgar identify the Good with pleasure,Īccordingly are content with the Life of Enjoyment-for there are three specially

Or Happiness that seem to prevail are the following. To judge from men's lives, the more or less reasoned conceptions of the Good But let us continue from the point 1 where

Nichomachean ethics by aristotle