Aristotle used scientific observation and analytic categorize to make judgment about the world around us, he observes the world and then analyzes it. According to Aristotle, human beings has a purpose, which is to achieve “happiness”. Happiness translate as “eudaimonia”, it's define as a well-being over a long period of time. In order to search for eudaimonia, we have to be complete and self sufficient, and this must gain through practice of virtue.
According to Aristotle, virtue means excellence, it's a type of development and exercise of capacity to reason. Happiness is the highest good for humans, we can only be happy if we fulfill our basic function or purpose, which is act according to reason. The use of reason is a virtue, happiness requires us to develop our virtues, in order to develop virtue, you'll have to act good and practice reasoning.
Aristotle also divided virtue into intellectual virtues and moral virtues. Intellectual virtues included theoretical......
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