英語作文,幸福

篇一：幸福英語作文

What is happiness? What is the good life?How should one live in order to live well? What are the definingcharacteristics of the good life? For much of the history of thought these questions have been understood asasking the same thing. For some of the ancient Greeks a keyquestion was whether happiness or the good life had to be amorally good life. For instance, Plato is concerned to showthrough a number of arguments in the Republic that the just(‘‘dikaios’’) or morally good person is also the happy person.And Aristotle, by defining happiness or ‘‘eudaimonia’’ as activity exercising or realizing excellence or virtue, seems to by hisdefinition work in morality as part of the nature of happinessor the good life.These questions – the perennial concern of classicalscholars – have in the last 25 years become the subject of debates in contemporarysocial and political theory as well. Foucault (1986), Taylor (1989), Kek