at we have learned from past ones. This virtue of character is also known as practical wisdom. A person with practical wisdom has had substantial life experience from which they are able to judge and give advice on any particular situation. Aristotle believes that many practical wisdom skills require development and teaching from others during the more fulfilling social meetings. Much of what is learned is learned from other people and/or circumstances occurring in the surrounding environment. We acquire the skills by performing the actions, but they dont truly become skills until the actions are found to be pleasurable. Virtue of intellect (or thought) is concerned with the scientific and calculative information a person can achieve. This practical wisdom is what gives human the knowledge needed to know how to achieve the ability to reach complete happiness. The highest intellectual intelligence is Sophia or the knowledge of the natural world. In order to reach Sophia, you must be able to grasp the first basic principles. These principles are what things really are in contrast to what they appear to be. One should be able to explain this aspect while demonstrating the eternal truths. This formal cause of happiness is valued over the other because the highest sort of activity is knowing the best aspects of the world which comes only through philosophical knowledge.Aristotle believes that the life of contemplation is the most superior way of life for humans. If an activity is not done for its own sake, then the activity becomes inferior. The activity of study is never done for a means to something else, but rather for the pure enjoyment of knowledge and wisdom. Complete happiness will be its activity expressing its proper virtue; and we have said that this activity is the activity of study (1177a16). This activity is portrayed as being divine and superior activity. By contemplating the heavens, we are actually contemplat...
