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the Greek word “techne,”13 it is to dwell poetically in the dualistic lightness and darkness of life.
As much as it is characteristic of Eudeimonism that there cannot exist incompatibility between happiness and the good, the summum bonum, a contrary view might admit that happiness and the good can coincide, but they don’t need to necessarily coincide. For Eudeimonism, happiness is the prize of virtue and in general of moral action. For those who advocate anti-eudeimonism, virtue is for its own sake, independent of the happiness that it may cause. For others, Eudeimonism is to be lost in sheer imagination as a means to contemplate beauty and the divine, a lavish reminder to our endless metamorphoses of being and the creating of meaningful lives by gathering those stunning dewdrops of heartfelt plenitude, Eunoia, that seize our lives so that we may flourish and...
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13 Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language and Thought. 157. Heidegger, Martin. Poetry Language and Thought. Trans. A. Hofstader. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1971.
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