Single Idea 24111

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

Full Idea

Happiness would be the equilibrium of the triggering activities of all the drives.

Gist of Idea

Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 7[260])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.286


A Reaction

For Nietzsche, only the 'highest' sort of human being could achieve such happiness. I can certainly see that there is happiness when a person is fully focused on something that seems worth doing.

Related Idea

Idea 20358 The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives [Nietzsche]