| The sun has been shining in this, Britain's Annual Week of Good Weather, so what better time to revisit theories of happiness, from Aristotle's eudaimonia to Alain de Botton's trendy School of Life variants. |
| Being selfish in the true Randian sense is about promoting the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonia, or human flourishing. |
| In short, he contends that one cannot have eudaimonia without the mutuality that characterizes the hermeneutics of love and its ethic. |
| We should recall however that eudaimonia in this theory does not refer primarily to a feeling. |
| On the one hand, as we have noted, Diotima does indeed present goodness and beauty in the self-referential terms of eudaimonia. |
| It is significant that synonyms for eudaimonia are living well and doing well. |
