If I recollect the Nicomachean Ethics properly, "eudaimonia" does not refer to a subjective state like "happiness." It means more like "good fortune," which is why things that happen after a person's death can affect it.
--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > > "Call no man happy until he is dead," says
> Aristotle...
> >
> >Ah, Solon, Solon...
> >
> >>...and he doesn't mean it's better not to be born.
> >
> >but Oedipos (according to Sophokles) does.
> >___________________________________
>
> My mistake. The line "Best is never to be born" is
> spoken by
> Sophokles's Chorus, not by
> Oedipos.
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