Categoria: Enéada I, 4 (46)

Tractate 46 First Ennead. Fourth tractate. On true happiness. 1. Are we to make True Happiness one and the same thing with Welfare or Prosperity and therefore within the reach of the other living beings as well as ourselves? There is certainly no reason to deny well-being to any of them as long as their…

Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy. DEFINITIONS OF HAPPINESS. 1. The (Aristotelian) ideal of living well and happiness are (practically) identical. Should we, on that account, grant even to animals the privilege of achieving happiness? Why might we not say that they live well, if it be granted them, in their lives, to follow the…