from theage.com.au
Dr Dunphy-Blomfield reckons Aristotle was on the right track by recognising sadness and challenges as vital components of what he called "the good life … which is much more complex than just going out and having fun. It involves relations with others and what he called virtues. These were qualities like courage that allow people to keep themselves well by living with moderation, and coping with the stress and grief that are part of any life."
Aristotle's main argument was to take a steady course, try a little of everything that life has to offer and rate your happiness against the big picture. "Call no man happy until he is dead," is how he described it.
Says Professor John Bigelow, a philosopher with Monash University: "If happiness is what we are supposed to strive for, then it should not be thought of as a current state, but a meaningful overall pattern in a life … When people we love die, we are prompted to think over their life as a whole; and this often prompts us, painfully, to think about our own lives."
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