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             Virtue, then deals with those feelings and actions in which it is wrong to go too far and wrong to fall too short but in which hitting the mean is praiseworthy and good. it is a habit or acquired ability to chose.what is moderate or what hits the mean as determined by reason.(Aristotle, 462).

             Attaining a consummate existence and reaching an ultimate end is when a person is able to reach a virtuous mean.

             Some people believe that happiness is achieved through wealth, honor, pleasure, or even virtue. Aristotle argues that wealth cannot constitute happiness because it is simply a monetary value that can be used only to gain happiness. Honor cannot make people truly happy because it focuses more on the people that are honoring them. Happiness is not directly experienced through pleasure. Virtue is not happiness because a person may be virtuous and not use or apply it to their life. Aristotle believes happiness to be a combination of these four elements: "the happy person is one who expresses complete virtue in his activities, with an adequate supply of external goods, not just for any time but for a complete life."("Aristotle"s.",1) To experience happiness is to possess and make use of each of these qualities.

             It would seem that no pleasure is the greatest good since nothing generated is the ultimate end. Happiness is the greatest good since it is the ultimate end of a man"s life. Yet happiness is not found without pleasure; pleasure is the "perfect response to the perfect good."(Aristotle, 460) Pleasure is not simply sensual gratification, it is a higher form of enjoyment such as mental pleasures, domestic love, friendship, and moral contentment. Pleasure is also a subjective feeling, and only the individual can measure his own emotions. Therefore, pleasure is not universal determinant of true happiness.(Fox, 3) .

             "All human beings desire pure and complete happiness, an active realization of their capacities; this goal can be achieved in many ways.