[lbo-talk] My Aristotle rant, was: Re: Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN

Philip Pilkington pilkingtonphil at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 17:01:21 PDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:


>
> Fine, 4th-century wise Greeks. My point was that eudaimonia is not a
> subjective state of pleasure, i.e., happiness. It is not an emotion, which
> is what "happiness" generally means to modern post- and late Christians.
>

Well, my point was that "happiness" itself, no matter in what culture or with whatever etymology was never an emotion. Its an ideal.



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