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Summary: The Rational Life-Aristotle

Everything done is meant to be for only good reasons. Everything we do is to cause a better outcome for another purpose which leads to pleasure for something else. There must be some end. There is an ultimate point to life. Living well and doing well are both linked to happiness although the definition of happiness is different to many people. The unwise people think that happiness is plain and simple things like pleasure, wealth, and honor. Some people identify happiness as becoming healthy when they’re ill or getting money when they’re poor. There are three types of life; life of enjoyment, political life, and contemplative life. People look to be honored which is superficial because honor should be given to you by others, not by yourself. You only get honored by dealing with some sort of suffering or misfortune which causes you to do well.
People who are considered “good” are always good at different things. People are good......

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