Happiness and Self-Sufficiency Sample Clauses

Happiness and Self-Sufficiency. Xxxxxxxxx’s discussion of virtue, as well as love and friendship, is further linked to his overarching claim that such values lead an agent towards acquiring eudaimonia. As the “chief good,” happiness is characterized as something “evidently complete,” “the end of all action,” and “self-sufficient” (NE 1097b20-21). Xxxxxxxxx describes the concept of self- sufficiency as that which, when isolated, “makes life desirable and lacking in nothing” as well as “the most desirable of all things.” (NE 1097b15-17). Self-sufficiency, according to Xxxxxxx Xxxxx-Xxxxxx (1995), applies not only to eudaimonia as the chief good, but has serious implications for friendship (p.127). The virtuous agent is deemed to possess a degree of self-sufficiency and “completeness” of their own accord. Additionally, though happiness is chosen “always for itself and never for the sake of something else” (NE 1097b6-7), virtue, along with the other excellences of “honour, pleasure, reason,” is chosen not only for its own sake, but for the sake of happiness (NE 1097b2). Like virtue and virtuous actions, friendships of virtue, as outlined in Section B, are chosen for themselves and for the sake of the chief good of happiness.