| Summary: | This study, entitled The Concept of Happiness According to Tengger
People�s View in Aristotle's Ethics Review, was based on hypothesis that moral
wisdoms, which rooted in the lives of Tengger people, could be an alternative
perspective among the current multidimensional crisis situation. This study aims to
build a theoretical construction of the concept of happiness in the view of the Tengger
people and how the path to seize it, which analyzed using Aristotle's ethical theory
(eudaimonisme).
This library research uses Aristotelian ethics theory as formal object, while
material objects are the Tengger people�s views of happiness. This study is using
induction, interpretation and comparison method. The methods are used to analyze
the meaning of happiness in the view of the Tengger people which, then, reviewed
from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics.
The result of this study was, first, the happiness in the view of Tengger people
means reaching equilibrium conditions in the reality totally, so happiness can be
noticed as the ultimate purpose of the whole reality in universe, include human being.
Second, Aristotle views that happiness is a "completeness", that the value can not be
constrained (without qualification). The outcome has done by realize the
characteristic potention of the human being (rationality) in accompanied by virtues
(arete). Third, the Tengger people�s concept of happiness have a structural similarity
with the concept of happiness in Aristotle's ethics. Tengger people, as Aristotle,
considers that happiness is not the instrumental purpose, but the highest purpose of
the whole of human action. In other hand, beside this structural similarity, there are
differences in terms of looking at the relationship between human being and universe.
While Aristotle differentiated the human beings with the other creatures in the
universe based on their unique characteristic (about rationality), Tengger people
looked that the human being and other creatures in the universe are equal, and they
(Tengger people) looked that harmony is the basic principle of the unity of universe.
Tengger people looked the "three-in-one" relationships in life, which happened in the
social, natural and spiritual context. Based on this pattern of relationships, so the
virtuous life noticed as the life in keeping harmony. Tengger people�s view of
harmony resulting some ethical virtues (respect, harmonious and temperance). These
virtues is the source of all goodness in life.
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