Resumo de Ethics For The New Millennium; ?the Aim Of Man?

Aristotle and the Dalai Lama have examined happiness and what renders it. They confirm, through their writing, that every man yerns for happiness but cannot easily attain this desire. The Dalai Lama?s Ethics for the New Millennium and Aristotle?s ?The Aim of Man? analyze what, specifically, bequeaths happiness. One would suspect Aristotle and the Dalai Lama to have very different ideas on what gives happiness; however, I would argue against this, after reading their works. In Aristotle?s mind, happiness comes from something thats only motive is the attainment of happiness. On the other hand, the Dalai Lama considers happiness derives from nying je chenmo, translated as ?great compassion.? Though these two views of happiness appear conflicting, after examining both authors? writing one may realize Aristotle and the Dalai Lama come to the same deduction. This deduction asserts how one comes to happiness: they ultimately conclude that happiness comes out of the actions one directs for the sole achievement of happiness.
Through his assessment of happiness Aristotle asks what gives a person happiness. He, at first, speculates the cause of happiness derives from striving for honor, money-making, pleasure, reason, or virtue. From a distance, he agrees, these may present fine things, but upon examining them closely he finds ?there is evidently a plurality of ends, and as some of these are chosen only as means to ulterior ends (e.g., wealth, flutes, and instrument in general), [so] it is clear that not all ends are final? (657). Since ?happiness is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end and aim of all that we do? (657) these other things, though they may seem good or bring slight happiness for a time, cannot give the complete happiness people search for. One must realize that the fulfillment of happiness takes a lifetime, and ?[h]appiness [] must be something that endures without any essential change? (663). For all these reasons one must conclude happiness to come from the actions one takes to attain happiness, only.
From Buddhist belief of nying je chenmo the Dalai Lama has built his existence. He claims that in essence of this ?great compassion? one will feel moved in obligation and compulsion to defeat suffering and its causes: even the slightest suffering should overwhelmingly move one. This is the heart of the Dalai Lama?s aim for happiness. He bases this ?on the simple recognition that, just as [he] do[es], so do all others desire to be happy and not suffer? (732). In attaining this happiness, one will acquire ?love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness? (734), for ?nying je, or compassion, as [the Dalai Lama] ha[s] defined it, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities [and], then the more [one] [is] compassionate, the more [one] provide[s] for [his] own happiness? (734). Through acting and developing great compassion the Dalai Lama explains that ?even if ultimately [one] do[es] fail, at least there will be no feelings of regret? (735). Reading through this paragraph one will notice the Dalai Lama building into the climax of happiness, and he ends up concluding that one receives happiness through an entire lifetime of working to make others happy, thus making himself happy.
In reading Aristotle and the Dalai Lama?s views on what gives a person happiness, asses their ultimate thoughts. They consider making happiness for oneself will require a lifetime, must come through actions, and deal for the sole purpose of making happiness. Each embodies these three main thoughts. This affirms our idea of Aristotle and the Dalai Lama arriving at the same conclusion of happiness coming from actions one directs for the sole achievement of happiness.

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