Morality and politics. Happiness according to the Ancient Greeks and Rousseau

Everyone wants to be happy! But at what cost and how to achieve it? Today more than ever before everyone wants to be happy. However in this time of multiple moral political economic and health crises man languishes groans and has lost all hope of being happy. The whole point of this analysis in this context it seems is to reflect on the different possibilities of knowing happiness beyond contingency. Indeed based on the conceptual field of the Ancient Greeks and Jean-Jacques Rousseau we consider how to paint the moral and political dimension of happiness. The former relates to solitude to the quest for the inner good. It is in his text on Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire that he paints this natural happiness of the solitary man in the middle of nature. Happiness is thus a matter of personal fulfilment of withdrawal into oneself and therefore away from the cities. The second on the other hand is social and relates to living together as his contractualism sets out the rules of the law in Du Contrat social. Concerned about the well-being of his fellow human beings he undertook to reflect on societal happiness.