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Headword:
*eu)estw/
Adler number: epsilon,3446
Translated headword: well-being
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Democritus of
Abdera says that cheerfulness is the end, and that it is not the same as pleasure, as some have wrongly taken it to be. Rather, [it is a condition] in virtue of which the soul passes its life calmly and quietly, tyrannized by no fear or superstition or any other affection. He calls this both well-being and by many other names[1]
Well-being is called happiness; just as
ai)eiestw/ ["everlasting existence"] [applies] to eternity.[2]
Greek Original:*eu)estw/: o(/ti *dhmo/kritos o( *)abdhri/ths te/los th\n eu)qumi/an ei)=nai le/gei, ou) th\n au)th\n ou)=san th=| h(donh=|, w(s e)/nioi parakou/santes e)cede/canto, a)lla\ kaq' h(\n galhnw=s kai\ eu)staqw=s h( yuxh\ dia/gei, u(po\ mhdeno\s turannoume/nh fo/bou h)\ deisidaimoni/as h)\ a)/llou tino\s pa/qous. kalei= de\ au)th\n kai\ eu)estw\ kai\ polloi=s a)/llois o)no/masin. o(/ti to\ eu)estw\ eu)daimoni/a kalei=tai: w(/sper kai\ to\ ai)eiestw\ e)pi\ th=s a)i+dio/thtos.
Notes:
For the noun
eu)estw/, see also
epsilon 3445.
[1] For the atomist philosopher
Democritus see generally
delta 447,
delta 448. The present entry reproduces
Diogenes Laertius 9.45 (= 68 A1, Diels-Kranz). He states there that Thrasylus (astronomer and philologist at the court of
Tiberius) listed the works of
Democritus by tetralogies; and the title
On cheerfulness (
*peri\ eu)qumi/hs) is listed amongst the ethical works in 9.46. On the issue of "cheerfulness" (rendered "tranquillity" in the Loeb edition of D.L.) see
Democritus B3 and, especially, B191 (DK).
[2] These words come from the second book of
On truth, by the sophist Antiphon (87 B22 DK). See
alpha 618 and
alphaiota 103.
H. Diels, W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Berlin 1972 (reprinted).
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 31 July 2000@18:46:19.
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