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According to Aristotle the good life is the happy life, as happiness is an end in itself. He also believes that all actions aim at the good and that the good is happiness. I believe ‘some’ of Aristotle’s views on the good life are correct but I believe sometimes we can sacrifice our own happiness for someone else’s happiness and the people that don’t have the power to reason do have souls and they are still as human as everybody else. In order to make my point I will first have to explain Aristotle’s claims of what a good life is and then I will give my opinion.

Aristotle believes the happy life is the good life for the reason that he thinks happiness is the only thing we value for its own sake, and happiness is not a means to any other things as it is an end in it self. Aristotle invites the fact that if we have happiness, we don’t need any other things making it an intrinsic value. In contrast things such as money or power are extrinsic valuables as they are......

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