Succeeding without uprightness
On the axis: The highest good · a life
Imagine someone clever and unscrupulous: he has lied, betrayed, crushed his rivals, and was never troubled for it. Rich, admired, surrounded by others, he dies old and content, without the slightest remorse.
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Justification
The sovereign good is likeness to the divine through contemplation of the Good and the justice of the soul, a moral perfectionism in which a life ordered by virtue is worth choosing for itself. A dimension remains, since this life of the just soul is presented as the happiest, with pleasure kept subordinate and deceptive.
Republic, IX, 580a-588a · Theaetetus, 176a-b
Justification
Nietzsche mocks the pleasure-happiness of the utilitarians as much as the morality of duty: the good is neither enjoyment nor disinterested virtue. It is the enhancement of life, the flourishing of power and self-overcoming, the great health of one who dares to create himself and to say yes to existence. A transvalued eudaimonism, where success is measured by strength and greatness, not by comfort.
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, 12
Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows · The Gay Science, IV-V · Thus Spoke Zarathustra