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Happiness may exist, but I think it isn't our purpose in life. Ulysses could have married Calypso, have children with her and eventually have turned her island in his home. But he didn't.

>> No.13536041

>>13536004
His name was Odysseus. Calypso bedded no one named Yoolyseas

Odysseus went to the beach away from her, to forget her and remember his wife and son. He longed for his mortal life there, home.

Read The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Fun pretend outtakes

>> No.13536044

Didn't she want him to become her sex slave?

>> No.13536067

>>13536004
Not sure how these things are related at all. Odysseus was unhappy and eager to go back home from the start. He never wanted to marry or even touch Calypso at all. How would he be happy?

>> No.13536083

>>13536044
>>13536067

It's every man's dream, to fuck a hot Greek godess daily. He rejected happiness.

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13536095

>>13536083
He had greater happiness back home.

>> No.13536097

>>13536083
Why would he choose some random no man's island in middle of (literally) nowhere as opposed to his literal kingdom where he had power, his family and friends? Just to fuck some whore? Read the Odyssey again, at every point the work makes it clear about how one should put his family duties above it all.

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>>13536083
Show me a woman, and I'll show you somebody who's tired of fucking her.

>> No.13536107

Eudaimonia, human flourishing in the form of acting on virtue, leads to happiness, but happiness does not to lead to eudaimonia, which is the ultimate end of humanity.

>> No.13536132

>>13536083
He enjoyed it to begin with, he's not a prude. iirc he says at some point Calypso had "ceased to please," implying for a while he was pleased.

The point of him leaving Calypso isn't to show he's rejecting happiness, but that safety and security does not bring happiness to a man like Odysseus. He needs something to overcome and struggle against.

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13536156

>>13536101

>> No.13536165

>>13536156
>negative canthal tilt
ew

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>>13536156
welp that was easy

>> No.13536170

>>13536004
WHO TIED MY HANDS TO THE WHEEL?

THE ZODIAC TURNS OVER ME!

SOMEWHERE THERE MY FATE REVEALED!

I HEAR, BUT HOW WILL I SEE?

>> No.13536227

>>13536165
that’s positive though, incel

>> No.13537968

>>13536227
Something's weird about her eyes.