ally inferring that all of our actions out of choice. No matter the reason for our specific choices, there is no choice that we would be able to make without getting pleasure out of the outcome. Whether our decisions are selfish, selfless or even self-destructive they all involve pleasure: whether momentarily or ultimately. This is a point that no sane person could argue against other than for the sake of arguing. Aristotle is good in making the power of happiness clear, but he follies when claiming that virtue is the means in which happiness is reached. He robs our animal instincts of their role in achieving happiness. We use reason as a way to moderately control our instincts. However, those very instincts are the very reason that happiness is obtainable. No one could think himself or herself into a state of happiness. They have to feel it. Aristotle should look as reason as more of a way to determine how to be happy, rather than a way of being happy. More importantly he makes a huge error in claiming that virtue is the means to ultimate happiness. If doing what ought to be done is the highest in the hierarchy of happiness, then all other means of happiness would lead up to virtue
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