Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics: An Overview
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This is a study about the meaning of happinessin Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics EN It is argued thatin EN means actuality and it has to be interpreted through the lenses of two metaphors used by Aristotle in ENa anda the perimeter of good and the imprint of
happiness To explain the meaning of happiness Aristotle first has to delineate the perimeter of good of human beings and he does that with the help of two criteria the final endand the function of humanity These two criteria are metaphysical concepts which describe the good as the final metaphysical aim of every person and the best every person can be This metaphysical teleological aim is the actuality of the soul according with excellence This is the perimeter within which Aristotle enquires about the good of humansRemarkable in its erudition through detailed analyses and fresh approaches Sabous book offers a new reading of Aristotles inquiry on happiness based on only two interpretative metaphors The whole architecture of Aristotles ethical theory is reconstructed on this basis Its a book devoted to criticallyminded students trained to penetrate the endless strata of surprising assumptionsValentin Muresan University of Bucharest Distinguished Research Fellow Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical EthicsSorin Sabou is the Prorector of Baptist Theological Institute of Bucharest He is the author of Between Horror and Hope Pauls Metaphorical Language of Death in Romans and The Cross to Rome