we are now in part nine of our presentation of Aristotle's nikan ethics and after we've said that there are four basic ways of life according to which happiness is defined by each we are now moving on to third and fourth conception so the first one was that of pleasure people who devote their life to enjoyment the second one was that of Honor these are are people of action who as it turns out really seek virtue as their happiness life number three is life of contemplation Aristotle calls it the philosophical life life number four is life of money-making where moneymaking is considered the goal the highest good we will consider the criticisms of each of these two lives and their conception of Happiness as we have before the third way of life is contemplative here everything one is becomes and does is for the sake of contemplative activity of the rational mind and happiness or the highest good is taken to be contemplation contemplation is thinking with the aim of knowledge for the sake of knowledge rather than for the sake of action it is not an attempt to calculate an eff of means to some end but rather an attempt to come brand reality as it is in itself in truth philosophical or even scientific thinking is the model here the claim is that we are happiest when we engage in such thinking theological thinking may also serve as an example here to the EXT to the extent that theological thinking is an attempt to comprehend reality in its deepest foundations via the conception of God so long as the goal is not salvation then theological thinking is also a contemplative activity marle does not offer any comments about whether contemplation really is happiness or not at this point in the text in the fourth way we are thinking of those who live and do everything for the sake of money sorry everything and everything for the sake of moneymaking is an end in itself it is the person who says that happiness is wealth a person that exchanges enjoyment and achievement of great goals records products services and contemplation right all of these are things that are used as a means to the end of amassing or increasing money that's the life of the money maker who's going to say that wealth is What happiness is our subtle comment is the same as the one we have seen before money is a means to an end and the life that makes takes money as the highest good is misguided money is not the happiness or the highest good but happiness does include money as a means to the good that is purchased by it and the person who does not use money well whether they're out of ignorance or for some other reason is not happy so for all these reasons money like pleasure is a good but it's not the highest good