Happiness is the Greatest Good In Aristotle’s essay, he “focuses particularly on how reason, our rational capacity, should help us recognize and pursue what will lead to happiness and the good life.”(Cooley and Powell, 459) He refers to the soul as a part of the human body and what its’ role is in pursuing true happiness and reaching a desirable end. Aristotle defines “good” as that which everything aims.(Aristotle, 459) Humans have an insatiable need to achieve goodness and eventual happiness. Sometimes the end that people aim for is the activity they perform, and other times the end is something we attempt to achieve by means of that activity. Aristotle claims that there must be some end since everything cannot be means to something else.(Aristotle, 460) In this case,....

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