Eudaimonia

I just love philosophy. I even listen to podcasts about it, but I haven't had the time to do much earnest reading.

Eudaimonia simply means "happiness" in Greek, but some philosophers and scholars prefer to translate it as "human flourishing."

Aristotle had a theory of eudaimonia in his work the Nicomachean Ethics. He asserts that "every art and every scientific inquiry, and similarly every action and purpose, may be saide to aim at some good. Hence 'the good' has been well defined as that at which all things aim." According to him, the ultimate aim of all human purposes is eudaimonia. Everyone wants a eudaimone life, and it does not make sense to ask why we want a happy life, for eudaimonia is not a means to an end but rather the end itself.