Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he expresses his opinions on the basis of thought through eudaimonia and arete. Eudaimonia is the goal of human conduct, or telos in Greek. In English, Eudaimonia translates into happiness, but Aristotle uses it as a well being through prospering and flourishing. To achieve this “prospering and flourishing,” one needs satisfaction of a job well done. Arete is excellence in fulfilling a function, also known as …showed first 75 words of 1133 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1133 total…Mean because his ideas are all backed up with information providing his writing ethos. Ethos is an argumentative method to help persuade the reader to side with the author’s argument. The Doctrine of the Mean is hard to distinguish between the natural disposition of character and actual virtue therefore making it often caused confusion as to whether the virtue or the way one goes about reaching the virtue is the actual route to Eudaimonia.