According to eudaimonist virtue ethics, the good life is the eudaimon life, and the virtues are what enable a human being to be eudaimon because the virtues just are those character traits that benefit their possessor in that way,
good life and eudaimon life relate, so this has to be a must have for finding the good life right? this can lead us to purpose and happiness.
The courageous person, for example, judges that some dangers are worth facing and others not, and experiences fear to a degree that is appropriate to his circumstances. He lies between the coward, who flees every danger and experiences excessive fear, and the rash person, who judges every danger worth facing and experiences little or no fear.
from stanford enc: judging the courageous man and finding the middle ground, no little or too much.
Therefore, where appropriate, he uses "happiness" or "fulfillment" or even "human flourishing" for eudaimonia and "virtue," "excellence," "skill," and "being good at,"
explanation and conceptualization of Aristotle and his ethics focusing on happiness
This end, he says, is the chief good which is desirable for its own sake, and this is what we ultimately seek and desire in all our actions. Aristotle then says that everyone agrees that this highest good is happiness (Greek eudaimonia, literally meaning ‘good spirits’), and that living and doing well are the same as being happy.
eudaimonia and seeking and attaining true peak happiness, yet does not define happiness.
but rather a distinctive form of naturalism in which the good life depends on a proper understanding of one's place in nature and the activities commensurate with one's nature.
Analyzing the good in life and finding place in nature