Since man cannot but desire happiness, it is observed that he performs various actions, not excluding the non- pleasant and bad ones, just to be happy. Happiness therefore means various things to various persons, even among philosophers. Besieged by these varying and sometimes contradictory notions of happiness, one has no other option than to ask: what does this happiness mean? Secondly, in what does it consist? That is to say, ‘when’ and ‘where’ can we find it, if at all it is realizable? This problem was identified by Aristotle when he wrote:
… But with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise4
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The Notion Of Happiness In Aristotle And Thomas Aquinas