Plato and Aristotle distinguish happiness from the existential and satisfaction of the masses, which they even posit as an evil policy goal (satisfaction of the beast). They even seem to deny the masses are capable of happiness, they seem to imagine the concept only applying to the philosophical class (the human being as opposed to animal or vegetable nature). They are certainly not the only ones to have felt this way, e.g, in Mein Kampf Hitler railed against what he called the communist rejection of the aristocratic principle and embrace of perfect materialism. It's funny that SSE seems less well schooled in philosophy than even that utterly uneducated bohemian corporal. Oh what a strange and fallen world we live in.
Plato and Aristotle distinguish happiness from the existential and satisfaction of the masses, which they even posit as an evil policy goal (satisfaction of the beast). They even seem to deny the masses are capable of happiness, they seem to imagine the concept only applying to the philosophical class (the human being as opposed to animal or vegetable nature). They are certainly not the only ones to have felt this way, e.g, in Mein Kampf Hitler railed against what he called the communist rejection of the aristocratic principle and embrace of perfect materialism. It's funny that SSE seems less well schooled in philosophy than even that utterly uneducated bohemian corporal. Oh what a strange and fallen world we live in.