Human Nature and ‘Eudaimonia’ in Aristotle

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says that eudaimonia (happiness) is the end of human nature. In the Greek thinker’s moral theory and theory of human nature, that good has a definite content, and is a universal and even obligatory moral good – the true good of man. Dr. Asselin argues that the connection that Aristotle sees between human nature and eudaimonia illuminates both human nature and the supreme moral good. To the same extent, Aristotle is a perennial source for theorizing about human nature, human moral qualities, and the best life for man.