Why Happiness is Nihilistic and Shouldn’t Be Your Goal

And why Meaning is a more meaningful ideal

Diogenes Searching for a Man by Johann Tischbein (via Wikimedia: Public Domain)

In previous articles in this series, we have looked at the living philosophies of three ancient thinkers: Epicurus, Diogenes and Cato the Younger and explored their varying formulations of the good life.

In the work of Epicurus, we found a philosophy that has a deep kinship wi…