To resolve this issue, Aristotle asks what the ergon ("function," "task," "work") of a human being is, and argues that it consists in activity of the rational part of the soul in accordance with virtue (1097b22 1098a20).
Doing anything well requires virtue or excellence, and therefore living well consists in activities caused by the rational soul in accordance with virtue or excellence.
The interviews lasted from 20 minutes to one hour, and included open-ended questions to the supervisors and ANs about what supervision consisted in, how activities were perceived to function, how the activities influenced the ANs, as well as questions to ANs about their motivation and their perceptions of their work.
It consisted in a 1h-activity designed and performed by ND students and developed in the teenager high school classroom using audio-visual support.
Thus when he says that happiness consists in an activity in 'accordance with virtue' (kat' aretên; EN 1098a18), Aristotle means that it is a kind of excellent activity, and not merely morally virtuous activity.
The sketchy answer he gives in Book I is that happiness consists in virtuous activity.
To be sure, there may be occasions when a good person approaches an ethical problem by beginning with the premise that happiness consists in virtuous activity.
First, republican freedom does not consist in the activity of virtuous political participation; rather, that participation is seen as instrumentally related to freedom as non-domination.
Both of these types of virtue are inferior to intellectual virtue which consists in the activity of the philosopher (see I 2. 6).
The first treatment of dataset consisted in unit scaling of activities; it is aimed to easily visualize the full dataset by normalizing the activities of all metabolites in a way that each activity value ranges from 0 to 1.
A significant aspect of capacity building activities consisted in the provision of hands-on training in laboratory analysis and implementation of a proficiency testing program externally monitored by the ICRL, again not a frequent practice in clinical trials.
