Inspired by my recent study of Tracey Emin as a person and artist , I gained inspiration through her style- a continuously unfilitered brazen portrayal of her life through all different mixes of media. However personal and outrageous her stories are, they connect with every person in a different way and evoke sensations that can't be ignored.
Now, I realized I wasn't quite ready to divulge everything about my life just yet, as Emin so fearlessy does, so I went searching and was intrigued by Aristotle. 'Nicomachean Ethics' is Aristotle's best known work on ethics and the theme of the work, previously explored by Plato, is How Men Should Live. Aristotle and Socrates turned philosophy to human questions and defined ethics as the best way to live. Aristotle's work on ethics is thorough but my focus derived from book I: defining happiness.
Honor, slavish pleasure, virtue, money and contemplation are associated with happiness and living well, however I believe Aristotle is missing some steps.
Intrigued by the subject of how we create a good life for ourselves, whether through learning, training or chance, I set out to ask people to define their own versions of happiness. Two simple questions: what is it and what fulfills you?
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