Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Dangers of Identifying Happiness With Subjective Pleasurable Experience
Aristotle's Eudemonia is the kind of life that you are on your deathbed and say, yeah, that was good. That was worth living - nothing at all to do with happiness in terms of pleasure or anything like that. People will pursue meaningfulness even at the cost of great pain -- it can be a choice worthy thing despite its conflict with pursuit of pleasure. Some modern philosophers have made similar argument from a completely different perspective.
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