Full Idea
The tremendous rat's tail of errors that has hitherto counted as the highest inspiration of humanity: 'All happiness is a consequence of virtue, all virtue is a consequence of free will!'
Gist of Idea
The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §705)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.375
A Reaction
A nice suggestion about the hidden agenda of Greek and Christian philosophy. If one began to doubt free will, where would that leave Socrates and Aristotle?