Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition.
Happiness became an enigmatic, always unattainable,.
Aristotle attempted to ground ethical Life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn\'t understand what Happiness is any better than we do.
But if, with Jonathan Lear , we scrutinize these thinkers\' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether Happiness or death--the pictures fall apart.
Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition