As a summary of the first book of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I had a very hard time comprehending what I was reading, so it was hard for me to understand. I came to the understanding that an action that is performed for a small goal, but that goal is a start to larger goal which then is a start to another even larger goal, and so on, until one reaches the final goal which is desired for its own profit. Ethics is a type of politics and a good student that is studying in ethics should have many life experiences and training in virtue.  After reading about Virtue I learned that Aristotle talks about virtue as things such as courage, temperance, generosity, magnificence, magnanimity, right ambition, good temper, friendliness, truthfulness, wit, and justice.

 It is also said that that everything we do is to achieve the highest good that we can claim which is happiness, which means living well and doing well. Meaning that everything we do in our lives is to make ourselves and our family happy. There is a known dispute about what constitutes happiness whether it is pleasure, honor, health, wealth, knowledge or something else. Happiness is said to be found in pleasure, others say that it is to be found in honor, and others that it is to be found in contemplation and others say it is found in other things. Happiness is only found in living because pleasure because happiness is not felt by the dead it is also said that happiness is only found in humans as plants and animals cannot achieve things and work towards their happiness.

A moral discovery that I had found was that a person that can be precise in one field such as in a mathematics field and to be precise and to do everything right and on point because he has studied and worked in that field and when it comes to that person working in another field that has nothing to do with that field he should not expect to be as precise because they only have expertise in that field and things that are similar. I realized is that we learn to work with what we have. For instance every person is good at something for say a person that makes shoes makes the very best shoes he can make with the leather and items that he is given the chance to work with.

Another moral discovery that I learned is that goods are divided into (3) three classes. Class one is considered external goods on the one hand, and goods of the soul and of the body on the other: and of these the three kinds of goods, those of the soul are considered to be to the highest good.