to the efforts of living happily is more easily achieved. Aristotle makes a good point when he describes this. Not everyone is capable of living in happiness, but much more people are capable of living ethically good. Complete happiness may never be achieved, but to even attempt it is quite commendable.Aristotle does not define ethical truth. He does define ethical goodness. These terms can be looked upon with the same value. For to live ethically and good is to live truthfully. Therefore, the good man, if one exists, is the measure of ethical truth. This is a good statement because it is factual and true. By definition, the good man is ethically good and in doing so, is ethically truthful. ExternalIn our modern society, goodness is a relative term. Someone is judged to be good by comparison to someone who is not. That is quite a difference from the way goodness was measured by Aristotle. Now that our ethics are no longer agent centered, society can no longer handle controlling themselves. The good man is not the norm, nor is he the measure of ethical truth.The good man no longer exists in the way Aristotle described. Goodness is now measured by others rather than within the individual. The concept of happiness that Aristotle described is not achievable in this day and age simply because of the way society has developed. Christianity developed command ethics and from then on, agent centered ethics has not been practiced by many people. Many people expect others to maintain themselves with some relative degree of goodness about their character. So in that, a degree of goodness can be expected. However, a good person cannot be a measure of ethical truth. These days, ethical truth or ethical goodness is a measure of a good person. Now we have certain criteria that can be used to define acting ethically. A person is judge by others to be good by how well that person fits those criteria. For example, a wealthy individ...
