Aristotle+E+p.+104-105

__**Translate each section separately. Make sure that you summarize and get to the heart of his logical argument.

Section 8.**__ Aristotle says "The happy man lives well and does well, for we have practically defined happiness as a sort of good life and good action. The characteristics that are looked for in happiness seem also, all of them, to belong to what we have defines happiness as being." By that he means happiness is doing good and being good. He takes the Olympic Games as an example, and says that people who compete are crowned, and those who act win, which which he defines as the noble and good things in life. He also says that life is pleasant, and pleasure is a state of soul and that the lovers of //noble// find pleasant things that are by nature pleasant.

Aristotle begins to prove his idea that happiness is the "best, noblest and most pleasant thing in the world" by stating that anything that anyone loves is pleasant to that specific person. However, what people believe to be pleasant is not always "by nature" pleasant, so for most people, their pleasures are clashing with one another. Noble men are noble because, unlike the masses, they only do things that are by nature pleasant. Since anyone who does these good and noble things must get happiness from doing them, these virtuous actions must be additionally "in themselves pleasant". Aristotle therefore proves that true happiness is the best, noblest and most pleasant thing in the world. -Jonathan Safron

Aristotle makes the assertion that happiness relates to the body, soul and external environment. He states, 'we identify the end with certain actions and activities; for thus it falls among goods of the soul and not among external goods...our account is that the happy man lives well and does well; for we have practically defined happiness as a sort of good life and good action'. This statement encompasses the body (living well, a good life), the soul (goods of the soul, good action) and the external environment (living well). Although he states that happiness does not fall among external goods, he also states that in society, there is a discrepancy between what is considered the true measure of happiness. Some people believe happiness is measured by internal factors, some by external, and others by a combination of the two. Aristotle uses the idea that 'happiness is the best, noblest and most pleasant thing in the world'. This means that people, to achieve true happiness, and not just societies skewed version of it, must obtain happiness simply by doing noble things. --Nicole Vecchione

__**Section 9.**__ Aristotle states that happiness comes from virtue and education. He asserts because happiness is the most important thing for people, that it is unreasonable to leave the goal of obtaining happiness to chance or to the gods. Aristotle believes that people should be able to pursue happiness by their own effort through learning and are better off when happiness is won this way. Aristotle explains because of that animals cannot experience happiness because they are incapable making the effort to be happy. He also points out that a boy cannot experience happiness, but only what he would hope to someday become happiness. This is because the boy has not yet lived long enough to obtain the wisdom needed to extricate happiness from living a good, virtuous life and terrible things might happen in a young boys life which would cause him to no longer be considered happy. --Nicole Vecchione and Choong Hwa Shin