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Explain Aristotle’s account of eudaimonia, making clear both what he takes it to be and Aristotle’s argument for his conclusion.

Assignment Question Philosophical inquiries into the notion of happiness can be traced back to the theorizing of the ancients, especially of Aristotle. In Nicomachean Ethics, he offers one of the first extensive conceptual analyses of what ancient philosophers call eudaimonia, a term commonly but perhaps inadequately translated as ‘happiness.’ Haybron