Apr 9, 2010
feminaamphibios: libraryland: colorfieldsandwagonwheels: likeancientbruises: (via libraries) A more ‘fitting’ translation would actually be the blessed life. Every action that we take is done for some other purpose, but there is a purpose that is done purely for itself, and this the ancients called eudaimonia, or the blessed life. To live the blessed live one must seek the beauty in all things, and so one must first desire beauty. In other words, one must desire and seek that which brings about the most order, the most goodness, and the most beauty. This is the path of the virtuous man; and so it is not so much that it matches who each of usare as individuals, but rather that we become what is most beautiful—most blessed—through right thought and right action.

feminaamphibios:

libraryland:

colorfieldsandwagonwheels:

likeancientbruises:

(via libraries)

A more ‘fitting’ translation would actually be the blessed life. Every action that we take is done for some other purpose, but there is a purpose that is done purely for itself, and this the ancients called eudaimonia, or the blessed life. To live the blessed live one must seek the beauty in all things, and so one must first desire beauty. In other words, one must desire and seek that which brings about the most order, the most goodness, and the most beauty. This is the path of the virtuous man; and so it is not so much that it matches who each of usare as individuals, but rather that we become what is most beautiful—most blessed—through right thought and right action.

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