eudaimonia

Flourishing or human happiness achieved through one's arete.

Flourishing; in Jiang's usage, the state of happiness and selfhood achieved when one expresses one's arete and reaches one's creative best or true potential. Jiang connects flourishing to the ability to acknowledge limitations, fate, and destiny while continuing to struggle.

Defined by Jiang as being creatively best: flourishing, blossoming, imagining, and vibrating as much as possible.

Flourishing: living to the best of one's ability under fate rather than chasing pleasure or emotional comfort.

Jiang defines Greek arete as excellence, becoming the best at what one can do, and eudaimonia as flourishing achieved through that excellence.

Jiang defines eudaimonia as flourishing: happiness and selfhood become possible only when one is achieving or expressing one's arete.

Achilles' choice of a young heroic death at Troy over old age at home illustrates Jiang's claim that Achilles can flourish only through fighting and glory.

Achilles' misery while sitting out the war comes from being prevented from fighting; without fighting, he cannot be Achilles.

Jiang defines greatness, arete, and eudaimonia in this tragic register as recognizing one's limitations, fate, and destiny while struggling regardless.

A person's role is to create as much of a vibrational splash as possible; eudaimonia is described as flourishing, blossoming, imagining, and vibrating at one's creative best.

Eudaimonia is presented as flourishing under uncertainty: because fate cannot be controlled, one should live today to the best of one's ability.

Because the current system was an accident of human imagination, Jiang says controlling imagination could create a new system oriented toward eudaimonia and intellectual flourishing.