Szczęście jako (najwyższy) sposób bycia człowieka (Arystoteles, Etyka nikomachejska 1098 a 7-18)

Małgorzata Matuszak

doi:10.31648/hip.951

Published: 2018-09-141

No. 15 (2009)

Happiness as the (Highest) Human Way of Being (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1098 a 7-18)

Małgorzata Matuszak

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.951

Abstract

According to Aristotle happiness can be achieved, because – it is an act and activity of human being; such sort of activity the purpose of which is achieved together with the very fact of realizing this activity: at the time of its fulfilling. The answer to the questioning about what king of action it is, seems to be connected with the ontology of human life, with the way it should be lived to become itself. And for human being to be himself. Thus it is connected also with the question who a man is, what is his place among and between other beings, first of all what is his relation on one hand to other living creatures – plants and animals – on the other, what is his relation to God. Situating man in a sort of ,,between” determines his way of life, and thus determines also his activity and action, which that way of being (of living) characterizes best. Problematic of human happiness express this ,,between” character in the fullest way and is marked with its ambivalence. It carries its burden.

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happiness, eudaimonia, Aristotle, activity, ergon, function, way of living

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Matuszak, M. (2018). Happiness as the (Highest) Human Way of Being (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1098 a 7-18). Humanities and Natural Sciences, (15), 195–204. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.951

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