tue. I show that one can be in accord with perfect virtue at any given time, but not all the time because human beings live on greed. One has the want for more. It is not that one is not coherent in this greed, because human beings know and can reason. Therefore, once any greed arises one is acting outside of perfect virtue thus never attaining happiness. I maintain this not to be true. For under no circumstance can a human being never once yearned for more no matter what his disposition is. Happiness is conditioned. It is communal. Happiness is not a precise science. Aristotle argues that happiness requires both complete virtue and a complete life. Aristotle says this because life entails reversals of fortunes and good and bad. Aristotle speaks of Priam in the Trojan stories in how he had a miserable end so you cannot count him as happy. I disagree in that one cannot say he was not happy up until that point. One cannot discount a man whole life due to one incidence. One cannot say that Priam was never happy during his lifetime. Again, Aristotle strict conditions of perfect virtue in attaining happiness devour one’s chance of ever being happy according to Aristotle. Further qualifying the impossibility as it relates to his definition. I have showed that it is impossible for someone to be happy according to Aristotle’s definition due to his strict conditions of perfect virtue and thus happiness. One cannot act in accord to perfect virtue for a complete life. This should not deny a human beings claim of being happy in his lifetime. Yes, human beings are trying to attain some good or end, but not necessarily as Aristotle views it....
