A study of eudaimonism based on the practical and moral conception of intelligence

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Plato's Theaetetus has a digression named the argument of Godlikeness. I interpret it with its contextual significance and conclude that Plato recommended the life of philosophy toward knowledge because he conceived intelligence as practically valuable and fundamentally moral. Aristotle read this dialogue and tried to make his version of this kind of recommendation in his Nicomachean Ethics. I regard his final claim on the supreme happiness of contemplation as consistent with his usual and thorough insistence on human morality, because Aristotle accepted Platonic idea of the practical value of intelligence or wisdom and added his own educational program within which his students would both learn to be good in respect of the virtues of character and master the ways of philosophical theorizing with his Ethics.