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    The Atlas·Ideas

    Happiness

    idea · 7 works · 12 mentions · 22 anchored passages

    happiness · blessedness · happy · being happy · doing well · eudaimonia · the good life · happy man · life of bliss · most blessed

    in the texts

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    The Supreme Good identified by common consent as the aim of human life, defined as activity of the soul in accordance with virtue over a complete life.

    What then precisely can this function be?
    chapter 1
    Moreover, to be happy takes a complete lifetime;
    chapter 1
    And further, the life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.
    chapter 1

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    The good life Croesus seeks through oracular counsel and later identifies with secure domestic enjoyment free from rule's anxieties.

    You must give me time to consider this, Croesus,
    chapter 7
    And who is it, asked Cyrus, that enjoys such a life of bliss?
    chapter 7
    Therefore, as I was thus without knowledge, I have my just deserts.
    chapter 7

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The state of happiness, used as an example of a single result produced by multiple causes.

    Of being happy, at least, being one thing, the virtues, being many, are causes;
    book 8

    The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

    The state of well-being that all wealth ultimately serves to produce; identified as a foundation of the right of property.

    Happiness itself is wealth.
    chapter 2
    These rights, then, to live, and to obtain happiness, are the foundations of the right of property.
    chapter 7
    and, secondly, in his right to provide for his general happiness and well-being, in addition to a mere subsistence.
    chapter 7

    MeditationsImperial · Greek

    The proper aim of human life, defined as acting in accordance with human nature and virtue rather than external goods.

    for you have learned by trial that, after wandering through how many things, you nowhere found the good life — not in syllogisms, not in wealth, not in fame, not in enjoyment, nowhere.
    book eight

    CharmidesClassical · Greek

    The state of doing well and living well, discussed as the goal that knowledge is supposed to secure.

    which of the sciences is it that makes him happy?
    charmides
    you rather delimit the happy man, it seems to me, as one who lives according to knowledge about certain things.
    charmides
    Is it the sort of person who might know, besides what is to be, both everything that has been and now is, and might be ignorant of nothing?
    charmides

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    A desired human and civic condition whose components Socrates scrutinizes.

    For how can anyone be happy without them?
    chapter 4
    Happiness seems to be unquestionably a good, Socrates.
    chapter 4
    But what element in happiness can be called in question?
    chapter 4