Aristotle asks "whether there is one end or aim that we seek, for its own sake, in all our actions and projects. He says that we can all agree that there is such an end, and that we call it 'happiness,' but we may disagree about what happiness actually is" (Haberman 98).
Aristotle and Plato (and philosophers of the like) seem to believe that there is an ultimate truth - the real answer to the universe and everything is contains. But what if there isn't one simple answer for everyone - what if the answer is that there are millions of different answers that are derived in millions (even billions!) of different people?
It's possible that the truth lies within every single being, and no two truths are the same. This has to do with why there is no consensus as to what the definition of happiness is. Everyone's purpose is different because people interpret their lives to have different meanings. One person could believe that there purpose is to be sacrificed to the gods for the betterment of their society and another person could believe that their purpose is to be born, to suffer, and to die. Nobody can be proved wrong because there is no proof as to what our purpose is.
But as I think further on it, the fact that the truth lies within us could be considered the one true explanation for the universe, which detracts from my point. However, it helps to think of different possible truths in order to maybe decide which truth to believe in.
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