
Classical and Contemporary Answers to the Meaning of Life | Prof. Michael Gorman
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Definition of Happiness
Aristotle says that pleasure emerges from excellent activity as its natural completion. A good life will be pleasant for the person living it, and a bad life will be unpleasant to them. Good actions are those in which we succeed in actualizing our potentialities in the right way. Bad actions are ones in which we fail to actualize ourselves in the wrong way.
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