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Single Idea 24223

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness]

Full Idea

I say that the admirable and good person, man or woman, is happy [eudaimon], but that the one who's unjust and wicked is miserable.

Gist of Idea

Admirable people are happy, and unjust people are miserable

Source

Plato (Gorgias [c.378 BCE], 470e)

A Reaction

This is eudaimonia, which is flourishing. So Socrates might consider them to be flourishing, when they saw themselves as failure. Parents said make money, but instead they lived altruistically, but guiltily. Note 'woman'.

Book Reference

Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.815