Aristotle: How to Be Happy 

this video is baller. it takes a lot of skill and effort to make something this engaging and rewarding. nice work!

Aristotle also mentions a story, or a saying taken out of Herodote's Histories, where Solon is talking to Croesus about hapiness, and Solon explains to Croesus that he can't tell him whether he is happy or not, for his happiness cannot be evaluated properly until Croseus had died. Aristotle writes that to be 'eudaimm' and 'to be eudaimon' is the same. While these phrases are almost impossible to translate, they are saying that "to live well" and "to have lived well" are one and the same, as long as life lasts. This, together with the assertion that hapiness is a lasting state of being, uninterrupted by passing moods and good fortune, which we sometimes have and sometimes don't. Aristotle suggests that happiness is not a state or an activity which changes the quality of a person, like learning and being learned, which come one after the other (like we, today, imagine that if we do something, we will after become happy). Happiness is an 'eu-daimon', a good daimon. Daimon is, according to Plato, something that accompanies each man throughout life and is his distinct identity. When Socrates is asked about his 'daimon', he says that the problem with it is that only others can see it, while he is forever unable to see it. 'Eudaimonia' is therefore a story, a biography of a person that other people tell. As far as it is interesting and talks about great deeds or great words, people tell a story about this individual, like the story of Achiles. Achiles is "happy"/eudaimon, because he managed to transcend his mortality. Which was the highest possible attainment of a human's life according to the Greeks, and also the reason why Herodotus starts his Histories by stating his purpose: "to preserve that which owes its existence to men, lest it be obliterated by time, and to bestow upon the glorious, wondrous deeds of Greeks sufficient praise to assure their remembrance by posterity and thus make their glory shine through the centuries.

Love this! I myself have also contemplated why us people do what we do. What's the point of all this?!?! Really, why is everyone so obsessed with going to school, getting a job, buying a house and retiring? Sometimes it seems like no one ever questions their lives. But I agree, being virtuous is what truly makes us happiest and I'm glad you revealed that in this video, it has probably saved me many more years of contemplating haha! Keep these videos coming, you're doing great :)

Clear. Engaging. Fun. Educational. Thank you so much for this, sir!

Thank you! Gonna need this for my seminar paper

Loved learning about these dudes in Classics at school...had an awesome hippy teacher who we used to call Jesus Smith! Nice vid dude

The whole point of Genesis 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' concept album. We are responable for our happiness. (understanding what is real) "As I cuddled the porcupine He said I had none to blame, but me." from the song Back in N.Y.C. “Look across the mirror sonny, before you choose, decide.” from the song 'IT'

I got content when I realised there's nothing I can do to make myself happy, and that becoming happy is the result of understanding what a man named Jesus did in pursuit of my happiness. He is the way, there is no other. If Aristotle had been around in the AD common era, I know he'd get it too. I mastered in Linguistics and that lead me to the philosophy that the cost of my iniquities is infinite, which is the equivalent of God's life. It's perfectly logical and the ultimate solution to the cracks in your soul that you alone can never repair.

Great video! How come the subtitles don't work? It says they are auto-generated in Portuguese... Thanks!

These videos are a great way to bring philosophy to the masses at an era where people prefer to watch than read. One thing though (fun fact); he should be called with his Greek name "Aristotelis" and not Aristotle, especially in this video because his name actually consists of two words: Aristos (best, in a sense of virtuous) and Telos which, as you explain in your video, means end goal, purpose. So, in this matter his name is his theory and vice versa.

Thank you for this video, Going to have to watch it again. But it really help me understand Aristotle. I'm taking Philosophy class and this is the subject for this week. And we have to do a summary about Aristotle. I tried reading and was so lost. But thanks for the video!!! :)

awesome. and excellent camera work too.

Awesome. I teach this the same way! Nicely done!

Thanks for the video, very educative...deep philosophy

Great explanation thank you!! ❤

That was an excellent video.

Clear and entertaining, too!

Thanks. I had a happy lunch listening to you!

This video is so good. Thank you.

Tahkn you for making this video

And now we live in the great modern world experiment, where more prosperity and liberty has resulted in more population, but not necessarily more virtue. We might even say that the lesson we have learned is that prosperity only corrupts. It is adversity which teaches us to value humility and simplicity, and striving which gives life its worth and savor. There is an objective , universal, moral "good" outside of each of us, which is why we must live by rules of virtue, and love our neighbor as ourself, or more than ourself. We must recognize that the material world is an illusion which turns to dust and must not be clung to. We must believe in an overarching moral or spiritual capacity or existence. We must posit an infinite, divine creator and final judge or judgment. Earth is just a waystation to an eternal state of existence. The fate of the soul is infinitely more important than the fate of the body.

Excelente vídeo! 👌

2:12 I’m watching it because of a course

No, you go to work in order to buy food.

What are the three concepts of happy lives according to aristotle?

Can u explain aristotle idea of happiness

"Happiness is nothing." ~ Some dude in that Vikings show.

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How to be happy: being greek

Arete brings Ataraxia to live in Eudaimonia 🦦🦦🦦🦦