Single Idea 14178

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia]

Full Idea

By happy you mean in secure enjoyment of what is good and beautiful? - Certainly.

Gist of Idea

Happiness is secure enjoyment of what is good and beautiful

Source

Plato (The Symposium [c.373 BCE], 202c)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.80


A Reaction

We seem to have lost track of the idea that beauty might be an essential ingredient of happiness.