The Good Life

The Good Life

The Good Life

Aristotle thinks or believes that the "Good Life" is where one’s accomplishments in being happy is a driving force. The good life is happiness tells that one is functioning well and reason. Aristotle believes that it takes time, hard work and restraint to get to the employ the habits of reasoning and according to him everything has a purpose (Rachels and Rachels, 2012). Aristotle states that "Good" has been defined right as "that at which all things aim" and that people identify happiness with living well or doing well (Sommers and Sommers, 2012).

St Augustine's definition of happiness as the chief enjoyment of the chief good; out of the soul is where man finds himself and what is found cannot be lost but is led by following God and obeying his will (Sommers and Sommers, 2012). St Augustine believes that to live the good life is to obey God’s will and command he maintains that we cannot achieve salvation or happiness without God’s grace (Sommers and Sommers, 2012). In support of St Augustine I think that man has a choice to live life to the fullest even through the trails and tribulations he may have experienced and suffered. St Augustine who distrusted reason and taught that moral goodness depends subordinating oneself to the will of God (Rachels and Rachels, 2013), which also helps to support his that through God we can achieve the good life.

Frankl who was a psychiatry and neurology professor treated people or patients who were confined to concentration camps. He had a understanding how they felt especially after losing his own family and everything he had. He could relate well to the prisoners. Frankl believed it was up to the inmates to change the way they thought and not succumb to the treatment that they were receiving and that their life had meaning, even though it was the idea of the Nazi’s to humiliate, degrade and have the inmates believe that their life was meaningless. Frankl believed in the "inner freedom" that...