In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle primarily defines happiness as being the ultimate end in one’s life through the accordance of complete virtue. This means that happiness can only be achieved at the end of one’s life because happiness is not a temporary state, but a goal. I suggest that happiness can be achieved sooner than this. Aristotle describes the three types goods which are divided by the external, the soul and the body (Nicomachean Ethics 1098 b13). Our actions is what the goods of the soul fall into, but the body and the external are also goods that Aristotle deems as necessary for happiness. However happiness can come from only the good of the soul. For example, a person may not have material goods, or feed his bodily
