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[Anonymous No.15402341]

>This is indicated, too, by the fact that the other animals have no share in happiness, being completely deprived of such activity. For while the whole life of the gods is blessed, and that of men too in so far as some likeness of such activity belongs to them, none of the other animals is happy, since they in no way share in contemplation. Happiness extends, then, just so far as contemplation does, and those to whom contemplation more fully belongs are more truly happy, not as a mere concomitant but in virtue of the contemplation; for this is in itself precious. Happiness, therefore, must be some form of contemplation.

So Aristotle pretty much says that my dog and my cat are actually not happy when I arrive at home?
Do you think animals can feel emotions like us?
Has any other author wrote about this?

[Anonymous No.15402381]

>>15402341
He couldn't be bothered to count the teeth in a horses mouth and just made up a number.

[Anonymous No.15402517]

>>15402341
There were no cats or dogs in Ancient Greece

[Anonymous No.15402531]

>>15402517
There most certainly were

[Anonymous No.15402578]

Aristotle's definition of happiness is not what we consider happiness in the modern sense (chemical bliss), but some kind of state of the soul.

[Harmodius !HeLLasW2K. No.15402595]

>the whole life of the gods is blessed
>meanwhile Zeus goes on a bender and cucks his wife by impregnating another woman for the umpteenth time
A blessed life they had

[Anonymous No.15402607]

>>15402517
In Plato's Dialogues Socrates literally swears "by the dog"

[Anonymous No.15402608]

bears will sometimes contemplate nature and being...perhaps aristotle was wrong...

[Anonymous No.15402613]

>>15402578
So he's saying that animals can't reach eudaimonia?