Aristotle asks whether happiness requires external goods -- like money, food, clothing, shelter, good birth, health, beauty, good children, good friends, and political power.
His answer is that happiness requires
Aristotle asks whether happiness requires external goods -- like money, food, clothing, shelter, good birth, health, beauty, good children, good friends, and political power.
His answer is that happiness requires
Are you thinking of the Stoics?
Aristotle asks whether happiness requires external goods -- like money, food, clothing, shelter, good birth, health, beauty, good children, good friends, and political power.
His answer is that happiness requires
If we don't have at least a moderate amount of these goods, we won't be able to develop our higher rational capacities.
Aristotle asks whether happiness requires external goods -- like money, food, clothing, shelter, good birth, health, beauty, good children, good friends, and political power.
His answer is that happiness requires
We need some such external goods, but not a great amount. Having too much can distract us from more important things.