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Re: What is happiness?
Fri, January 11, 2008 - 2:28 PMThis is going to sound like a slogan. But I've been thinking about this a lot lately. And I think happiness, like "sexuality," is a ruse of modernity. -
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Re: What is happiness?
Sat, January 12, 2008 - 7:53 PMI disagree. The concept of "happiness" has been sought by humans since the time of Aristotle and Seneca. They may have written about "eudamonia" instead of "happiness", but it's all the idea is the same.
I do however agree that happiness is a ruse.
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Re: What is happiness?
Sat, January 12, 2008 - 4:22 PMIn existentialist terms happiness has to be the equivalent of whistling while walking over a cliff, on the other hand since the alternative is panic, why not?
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Re: What is happiness?
Sat, January 12, 2008 - 8:00 PMI imagine the more a person lives in freedom, the greater their sense of happiness. Most essentially, freedom from the tragic pursuit of that very same ideal.
There is a very nice volume on the topic written by Darrin McMahon, appropriately titled, "Happiness".
www.tatteredcover.com/NASApp/.../Product
