ARISTOTELES: PIL UNTUK MEMPEROLEH KEBAHAGIAAN SEJATI

Abstract

Many things might make our life enjoyable but not with happiness. Happiness is the most desirable thing. It is not a thing counted as one good thing among others. It is not an afterlife affair but it matters in this life right here. Aristotle provided pills or supplements which will assist us to achieve the most desirable thing. According to Aristotle, there are two sorts of pill. The first is to live according to reason. The second is to live according to virtue. The virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e. the mean is relative to us, this being determined by a rational principle, and by that principle the man of practical wisdom would determine it (1107a1-3). Therefore, happiness ought to be embodied in line with the highest and rightest virtue. These activities will be perfect happiness. The best man is not the one who exercises his virtue towards himself but the one who exercises it towards another; for this a difficult task. Justice in this sense, then, is not a part of virtue but virtue entire, nor is the contrary injustice a part of vice but vice entire” (1130a1-8).