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Title: Should We Die To Achieve Happiness, Or Find The Purpose Of Our Life?
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Even the feeding process takes us a lot of time. Does this mean that Plato was waiting his death for no reason? He could simply practice yoga and detach his body from his mind to gain access to full knowledge.
On the other hand, Aristotle’s concept of eudemonia is reaching a final goal, which is the happiness in itself... Showed first 250 characters
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In his work, the Nicomachean Ethics, he cites: “[W]e always choose happiness as an end in itself… happiness is something final and self-sufficient and the end of our actions.” (page 425, par. 3), therefore, the mean of our life is reaching happiness. More over, a human good for Aristotle is an action of the soul in compliance with virtue (page 426, par... Showed next 250 characters
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