Natureza humana, ação e contemplação: o conceito de eudaimonía em Aristóteles.

Abstract

This dissertation has as objective to search the concept of human Eudaimonia by the Aristotle philosophy, taking into account what the stagirita highlighted in your Nicomachean Ethics two types of Eudaimonia, one placed on your ethical/political life and another placed on the contemplative activity. This distinction made a dichotomy in the core of the Aristotelian thought studies, at first sight, insuperable that make the man to question if the best way to happiness would be in the life of the wise or in life more human, like the life of the man in the Polis. Due the overthink about the problem in point, there was a disregard about the fundamental aspects of the concept of the Aristotelian Eudaimonia, that in its turn, causes confusion in Aristotle literature interpretation, and b that this dissertation has the objective to reformulate the problem, as there are gaps in the interpretation. It is very evident that, in his work, the hierarchy between the practical activity and contemplative, and there’s no denying of that. However, it is necessary to question some limits of this hierarchy, because it seems that to give exaggerated importance to this emerge some contradictions of the Aristotelian thoughts, also gets lost fundamentals elements of human live, and it is clear that around this live that all the concerns of the Aristotelian works.