How is happiness, a purely emotional state, moral or immoral? It is neither a vice nor a virtue, purely a reactive state, not the idea.
Humility is a introspective form rooted on shame (decreased serotonin), that exploits several feedback loop a in the mind simultaneously. But a mere increase is not happiness. Happiness can be known without a fluxuation in serotonin, but the absence of Noradrenaline or Dopamine as well.
These are very different transitive states, dependent of the durability of social circumstance.
His contemporaries, those still loyal to the republic, focused on giving him “surprise”… A death that screams out over the ages, to match his fame, that the rules of Tyrants would not be tolerated. The attack is one of pure serotonin and noradrenaline, causing a serotonin collapse in Caesar… That serotonin mixed with dopamine gave him joy. He wasn’t angry when he died, was surprised, but felt more betrayed, on a familiar basis… Et Tu Brutus?
Sounds like they got the formula wrong… His dopamine was still intact till the last, he wasn’t angry… was shocked.
How did Marc Anthony and Octavius react? Marc was fearful, Octavius was angry.
They actions react to a void… Happiness can be many things, but I suspect for Caesar it was just a serotonin and dopamine high. His two political heirs had to unite to rebuild Caesars system, and in their successes, outdid Caesar. It was a very exciting time… Drove them to civil war, changed it well beyond what Caesar intended. Caesar had a lesser vision. They would eventually split the empire between them and and seek to slay one another. Anthony was the lover and soldier of necessity, campaigning far in the east into Azerbaijan for Cleopatra, Anthony drove the masses to Anthony’s indignities in submitting to a foreign, decadent queen, betraying the principles of the republic (cough cough hipocrit)