Aristotle vs. Gita

Aristotle believes that everyone carries out actions in attempt to get some kind of good out of each action. Getting good out of an action, he believes, is what makes one happy. The quote “The statement that the happy man lives well and acts well, too, is in harmony with the definition of happiness” (Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics page 5) demonstrates Aristotle’s view. Every man wants to be happy no matter how he reaches his happiness. Happiness is the goal of every man, no matter how he reaches it, every man wants to be in their state of happiness. Therefore, every man should do what makes him happy, no matter what it is. If being a professional baseball player makes him happy, then that is what the man should do. If saving live

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and The Bhagavad-Gita both share the view that action is the nature of the soul. It is also apparent that they disagree about the attachment to the actions performed by a person. The Bhagavad-Gita does not believe in being attached to an action, disagreeing with Aristotle’s view, which needs attachment if one is trying to find happiness. Aristotle’s views are more for today’s society mindset. People who read these two different philosophies are more likely to side with Aristotle’s views. Every man takes action in order to receive some kind of good. A man addicted to drugs does drugs in order to reach his state of happiness. He feels that drugs will make him happy so he takes drugs. The Bhagavad-Gita does not provide man with his own choices. Man is supposed to carry out his duty, whatever that may be. Aristotle provides man with a choice, and whatever the choice man chooses, he made that choice to find happiness. Therefore, even when performing actions that one would consider bad, it is still for the intent to get some kind of good as a result.

The Bhagavad-Gita states that people should carry out and fulfill certain actions because it is their duty and it is the nature of the soul to perform these actions. While performing actions the Gita believes that one should have no particular concern of the outcome, whether it is success or failure. In The Bhagavad-Gita Arjuna is reluctant to fight in battle because if he were to fight he would be going against his own kinsman. Lord Krishna, seeing Arjuna as a coward, says “Look to your own duty; do not tremble before it; nothing is better for a warrior than a battle of sacred duty” (The Bhagavad-Gita pg.34). Therefore, man is to do what he is expected to do in life to achieve true happiness. Arjuna was expected to fight the battle, for Krishna told him not to wor

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