Should We Desire Eureka/Aha? The Pursuit of Eureka!/Aha!
Does Eureka!/Aha! keep us from living living? No, a Eureka!/Aha! moment does not move us from living. Rather a Eureka!/Aha! moment results from participation with life.
Happiness, Working of the Soul in Perfect Excellence
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Moreover, since Happiness is a kind of working of the soul in the way of perfect Excellence, we must inquire concerning Excellence:
Complete Virtue and a Complete Life Constitute Happiness
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – For to constitute Happiness, there must be, as we have said, complete virtue and a complete life
Happiness – The Chief Good – Aristotle
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Now of the Chief Good (i.e. of Happiness) men seem to form their notions from the different modes of life, as we might naturally expect
Aristotle – Happiness Is Manifestly Something Final and Self-Sufficient
Happiness we assume to be in every way an end and complete. Happiness belongs to the class of things precious and final – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Happiness Is Living Well, Though Its Nature Is in Dispute
HAPPINESS both the multitude and the refined few call it, and “living well” and “doing well” they conceive to be the same with “being happy