Happiness is not pleasure, nor is it virtue. It is the exercise of virtue. Since man is a rational animal, human happiness depends on the exercise of his reason. Happiness depends on acquiring a moral character, where one displays the virtues of courage, generosity, justice, friendship, and citizenship in one’s life.

As Aristotle say, “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Every person wishes to lead a happy life, not even knowing what actual happiness is. Anything else is solely dependent on that person either to make his/her life happy and worth living or to live depressingly and eventually die. …

“Happiness depends upon ourselves” means how people enjoy what they have and how much they appreciate the essence of life. People can find happiness in many things such as wealth, but ultimately it is your decision to have self-satisfaction and enjoy what you have already, not what you desire.

According to Aristotle happiness depends on ourselves and happiness is the ultimate purposefor which people live for. According to him happiness is does not last for a few moments butit is a whole totality of one’s life hence happiness cannot be determined until one’s life is complete.

According to Aristotle, happiness consists in achieving, through the course of a whole lifetime, all the goods — health, wealth, knowledge, friends, etc. — that lead to the perfection of human nature and to the enrichment of human life. This requires us to make choices, some of which may be very difficult.

Kindness

Answer. Answer: this is because the whole Earth and whole human beings and the earth creature is made by the God.

For Aristotle, eudaimonia is the highest human good, the only human good that is desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines virtue as “a habitual and firm disposition to do the good.” Traditionally, the Seven Christian Virtues or Heavenly Virtues combine the four classical Cardinal Virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage (or fortitude) with the three Theological Virtues of faith.

There are three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity.

These prominent women include the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, Miriam the prophetess, Deborah the Judge, Huldah the prophetess, Abigail, who married David, Rahab, and Esther. A common phenomenon in the bible is the pivotal role that women take in subverting man-made power structures.

The old wisdom that men and women are moulded from the same clay must have inspired the story about Adam’s first wife, created by God from the same dust as Adam. Her name was not Eve, but Lilith.

The Woman’s Bible is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man.

It has no known author, and although it’s popularly known as a “gospel,” it’s not technically classed as one, as gospels generally recount the events during Jesus’ life, rather than beginning after his death.

Contents of The Lost Books of the Bible

• The Protevangelion.
• The Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ.
• The Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
• The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus King of Edessa.
• The Gospel of Nicodemus (Acts of Pilate)
• The Apostles’ Creed (throughout history)
• The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Laodiceans.

The Gnostic Gospels: The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include ‘secret’ gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels explores these documents and their implications.