So, we have been talking about how the human end and desire is happiness. How “all desire eudaemania”. I was thinking however, on how Aristotle says that happiness depends on the pairing of desire and rational behavior. That reminded me of the movie Pursuit of Happiness. It reminded me on how he has the overwhelming desire to better himself and acts rationally upon that desire. I believe he does it for the right reasons (his improvement, and his sons well being), he acts in the right way, with the right feeling and at the right time. In other words, he finds the mean between acting in an extreme fashion and acting with a lack of interest towards the problem. Also, I began to think how many times I have acted irrationally in Aristotle’s eyes because I have given myself into desire without really being rational about my actions.
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