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A further confirmation is that the lower animals cannot partake of happiness, because
they are completely devoid of the contemplative activity. The whole of the life of the
gods is blessed, and that of man is so in so far as it contains some likeness to the
divine activity; but none of the other animals possess happiness, because they are
entirely incapable of contemplation. Happiness therefore is co-extensive in its range with
contemplation: the more a class of beings possesses the faculty of contemplation, the more
it enjoys happiness, not as an accidental concomitant of contemplation but as inherent in
it, since contemplation is valuable in itself. It follows that happiness is some form of
contemplation.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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