What We Can Learn From the Ancients About Happiness

“The School of Athens” fresco by Renaissance artist Raphael depicting the Platonic Academy, a famous school in ancient Athens founded by the philosopher Plato in the early 4th century B.C. In the center are Plato and Aristotle, in discussion. Public Domain

Commentary

In the past several decades, it seems everyone has discovered a recipe for happiness, from various celebrities and new age gurus to the cannabis retailers one now sees on every street corner; from the moral relativists, to the New Atheists, to the Darwinian dogmatists for whom the world is the product of blind chance; from the self-righteous social-justice torchers of cities to the anatomical male rapists who “self-identify” as females in order to get sent to women’s prisons.