Single Idea 100

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness]

Full Idea

The happy life seems to be lived in accordance with goodness, and such a life implies seriousness.

Gist of Idea

The happy life is in accordance with goodness, which implies seriousness

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1177a03)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.327


A Reaction

There are far more jokes in the talk of Socrates than in the writings of Aristotle. Presumably seriousness is required by anything which turns out to be difficult.