Nietzsche's Contextual Point Of View

From the contextual point of view, Nietzsche lived his later life in solitude and left professorship, and he traveled in search of good health. He suffered from poor health. Nietzsche has critiqued the happiness in modernism that it prohibits critical thinking. "I seek to understand out of what idiosyncrasy that Socratic equation reason=virtue=happiness derives: that bizarrest of equations and one which has in particular all the instincts of the older Hellenes against it" (Nietzsche 1968b: 31). Nietzsche, therefore, disregarded the older and Socratic equations of happiness as the bizarrest of equations that reason leads to virtue and virtue leads to happiness. From the contextual point of view, Nietzsche may not have achieved this, because
He has majorly critiqued the concept of happiness of the Greek philosophers. Nietzsche reminds us that “the Greek philosophers did not pursue ‘happiness’ in any other way than by finding themselves beautiful, thus making a statue of themselves, the look of which would did one good” (Babich). This again reminds that the Greeks had an idea of happiness in achieving virtue. According to him, although virtue may lead to good feelings and creating an artistic work of art and self-reflection and self-praising by making their statues that looked like ideal man and women. The concept of self-praising and enjoying one indulgence in appraising his or her own beauty is not about happiness. This is contrary to the critical thinking that one is indulging in self-appraising satisfaction labeled as happiness and he critiqued that. “For Nietzsche, then, our morality amounts to a vindictive effort to poison the happiness of the fortunate (GM III, 14), instead of a high-minded, dispassionate, and strictly critical concern for others.” (Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). According to him, the vindictive efforts poison the happiness and therefore prevents from the critical