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Not asking about any particular concept of well being or happiness. The question may seem odd: if I am happy today now then I will have been happy for the day. But I suspect it at least may be more complex than that.

Does eudemonia depend on tense or does change only show us that our happiness can be unreal?

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    No. Colloquial "happiness" is a loose and inaccurate translation. Eudaimonia, on Aristotle's conception at least, is not about "feeling" happy or happiness-for-the-day, but something more objective, enduring and robust, see SEP, Aristotle’s Ethics:"using reason well over the course of a full life is what happiness consists in... living well consists in activities caused by the rational soul in accordance with virtue or excellence".
    – Conifold
    Dec 1, 2021 at 0:35
  • So we only have well being if we have it for out whole lives @Conifold ? If not, I see no reason to suppose that we cannot experience eudemonia for one day among many
    – user56946
    Dec 1, 2021 at 0:49
  • Or do you think that eudemonia is only experienced as an abstraction away from life (I live well but never at any time)? Perhaps that's it
    – user56946
    Dec 1, 2021 at 1:01
  • Eudaimonia is not something "experienced", it is a certain way of life that may or may not be accompanied by pleasurable experiences you are thinking of. Those emotional colorations are not eudaimonia, it is an objective state of affairs, and a persisting one by definition. To paraphrase Lao Zi, eudaimonia for a day is not the true eudaimonia.
    – Conifold
    Dec 1, 2021 at 1:50
  • I'm confused what mistake you think I've made @Conifold nowhere have I said that pleasure is sufficient for well being. Nor that well being for one day only is possible. And you haven't answered anything I've said. Annoying!
    – user56946
    Dec 1, 2021 at 2:11

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No.

Eudemonia exists independent of any time, because eudemonia is a quality of a person, not any transient state of mind, nor experienced state of the world.

If I have well-being I will have had well-being (and even always have it).

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    It's less that Conifold is wrong, it's that he always misreads everything I say
    – user56946
    Dec 1, 2021 at 3:19

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