good life

blessing

toast (speech)

is a happy life, not because if you are good you will be happy, but if you are happy you will be good.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy... I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Well, someone will say, 'But the many can kill us.' [Cr.] Yes, Socrates... that will clearly be the answer. [Soc.] That is true... but still I find with surprise that the old argument is, as I conceive, unshaken as ever. And I should like to know Whether I may say the same of another propositionthat not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued' (plato 'crito' .pdf)

is concerned with the development of all the public and private virtues that a successful state can shelter—military courage, marital fidelity, devotion to the physical and psychological welfare of our children, and so on.

Aristotle’s genius was for showing the ways in which we might construct the “best practicable state.” This was not mere practicality; the goals of political life are not wholly mundane. The polity comes into existence for the sake of mere life, but it continues to exist for the sake of the good life. The good life is richly characterized, involving as it does the pursuit of justice, the expansion of the human capacities used in political debate, and the development of all the public and private virtues that a successful state can shelter—military courage, marital fidelity, devotion to the physical and psychological welfare of our children, and so on indefinitely.

is concerned with the pursuit of justice and the expansion of the human capacities used in political debate.

is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

is achieved through learning, yearning, and earning.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, yearning, and earning.

good life, n.Definitions

good life