아리스토텔레스에게 있어서 행복의 조건 = The Conditions of Happiness in Aristotle

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Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics discusses the concept of human happiness. However, since he in Book 1, chs. 7-13 appears to regard the sum of all the activities as happiness, whereas he in Bk. 10, chs 6-8 seems to say that contemplation is a sufficient condition for happiness, there has been a controversy concerning which one of the two views really represents Aristotle. In what follows, I shall bring in the conception of “the comprehensibility of the soul” introduced by Aristotle in the De Anima and claim on the basis of it that his views called inclusive thesis and dominant thesis, respectively, are not incompatible, but can be interpreted as one and the same view. That is, he sometimes mentions a single soul and sometimes various souls, but since when he mentions a single soul, he has in mind a higher soul which subsumes or includes various lower souls, both cases can be understood as having indeed one and the same connotation. Through this discussion, we can conclude that the seemingly inconsistent theory of Aristotle`s conception of happiness is in effect consistent.