Aristotle There has been a great debate over the highest human good and whether happiness is the highest good. Philosophers have said that the highest good is happiness. Others have said that it is piety. Aristotle insists that all human beings desire to be happy and the highest good is happiness. But what is happiness? If I am smiling does that mean I’m happy? If someone wants to be lonely is that mean to …showed first 75 words of 892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 892 total…for instance, a person is addicted to drug. He believes that to keep taking the drug will make him happy. However, the choice for happiness is not right morally and legally. Is the life itself called, ‘happy life’? There is no such a standard of good. How good is too good? It is hard to answer this simple question. Therefore, the intention and the progress to achieve the highest human good are also very important.