亚里士多德的幸福观及其现实启示

Aristotle's View of Happiness and Its Realistic Revelation

当前社会对于幸福问题的关注主要侧重于对幸福外在条件的改善与研究上,从而忽视了实践主体精神丰富的重要作用。在亚里士多德的理论中,幸福不仅是人的实现活动以及对于生活的合理的长期规划,同时也是德性的不断生成活动。相比于"享乐主义"和"禁欲主义"倾向的幸福观,亚里士多德的幸福观具有更多的合理性。

Nowadays, the researchers’ attention to the topic of happiness is mainly on the improvement and study of the external condition of happiness, while, the importance of spiritual richness of practical subject has been neglected. In Aristotle’s view, happiness is not only the activity of people achieving their goals and the rational long-term planning for life , but also is the activity of people cultivating the virtue. This paper made a comparative study between the popular views of happiness of “Hedonism” and“Asceticism”. It finally concluded that Aristotle’s view of happiness has more rationality.