Analyze the Concept of Aristotle's Eudaimonia. Can It Be Applicable in Today's Society?

                                                          EUDAIMONIA

  Analyze the concept of Aristotle's Eudaimonia. Can it be applicable in today's society? Explain why or why not.

     Eudaimonia is the good for a human life. It is usually translated as ‘happiness’ but Aristotle says it is ‘living well and faring well’. (Pag 1). Happiness is a feeling of inner well-being, which does not depend on material things or anything that comes from outside. “For thus is falls among goods of the soul and not among external goods”.(pag 130).

     To me the concept of Aristoteles of Eudaimonia is the happiness that we can have as a human being, but that happiness is inside, it did not come from outside things. It is a feeling that does not depend of age, sex, race, religion, intellectual or culture level. There is something very personal, something that I think we acquire with the time, with the experiences that the life giving us. I think some people get it at the end of their lives while others get it at early age. I am sure we need of the experience, learning and training to have the real happiness. Sometimes after a bad experience in our lives which could be a health problem, the loss of someone who we love, or a big financial problem, we can find that the lives has important things that maybe we did not appreciate them before and then we start appreciating what are those important things in live that definitively does not have anything to do with the power or the money and then we found that there is a feeling that bring good and peace inside us.

      We usually grow up with the idea that happiness is what we feel when we have a gift, we are at a party or we earn extra money, but that is not real happiness, that is a pleasure, it’s a kind of euphoria, which is how we have been taught to think about happiness, and then when that small moment go away we can have a feeling of emptiness and then the sadness takes a space in our life and begins that search of happiness in material things which will keep us away from the real way of achieving that happiness. I would catalog the real happiness as a state of inner peace that we achieve through our life, with the learning that life is giving us.

      I believe that it can be applicable to today's society.  I believe it is something that applies to all societies and during all the times, because it is something that is not general, it is something individual. It’s a concept very subjective. I think that if I talk specifically about the society of USA, I should say, that here it is more difficult to achieve the state of true inner happiness because the consumerism. I think sometimes people are getting lost in their eagerness of having, and did not notice that the live have more important things which makes that our people specially our youth been very empty and I think that there comes the high rate of suicide by not finding inner wellbeing, which is not achieved with material things and instead you can feel a great emptiness, which generates sadness and the feeling of loneliness.