ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the tension between the good life and living well. Episodic happiness is always on the horizon of a successful life or possible happiness. The chapter focuses on the following paradox: whoever considers episodic happiness as the measure of all happiness is prohibiting themselves from the happiness of a good life. Whoever understands good as only the satisfaction of desires is pursuing two incompatible goals: leading a life with the best possibilities of success and doing everything not to reach what is best. Then, the chapter explores the relationship between happiness and fortune. Any study of the relationship between happiness and fortune must consider the fact that fortune often surpasses humans' own expectations of happiness. Furthermore, the chapter argues that there exists an enigmatic relationship between happiness and luck that disrupts the link that should, logically speaking, necessarily unite happiness and morality.
