Comment by exratione

It is interesting to compare this interpretation of Aristotle on happiness with the transhumanist take on happiness, pleasure, and suffering known as the Hedonistic Imperative. When doing so, Aristotle starts to look a lot closer to stoicism, in sense of acceptance of the human condition as it is, planning a strategy within established limits that cannot be changed. The spectrum of philosophy expands, with most of the ancients sitting quite close to one another in a much larger state space than they had access to.