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Connecting happiness to the human function and to virtue?

(This is not a homework assignment. I am just getting peoples opinions) How does Aristotle connect happiness to the human function and to virtue? How might we might develop virtues?

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1. Happiness, according to Aristotle, is a "well-lived life". It is not an emotional state, and it is not an emotion. Aristotle says that virtues are a "Golden Mean" between two extreme human traits. For example, the virtue of courage is a mean between the two vices of cowardice and foolhardiness. All in all, we develop Virtues by arriving at some kind of Balance. Balance = Virtue = Happiness