Questions tagged [happiness]
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Arguments against "The good life is a happy one"?
In a previous question I have referred to eudaimonia and mentioned that, I guess at least in hellenistic tradition the good life is a happy one.
However, now I wonder whether there is a counter to ...
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Is the good life a happy one?
I am curious whether the good life is also, somewhat by necessity, a happy one? I am basing this off of the concept that happiness is not merely feeling good all the time, but rather in the sense of ...
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Are the justifications of an irrational society false?
I was reading a bit about Horkheimer, and at various times he claims that capitalist society is not rational, that society limits rational critique of reason, and that
something in them should rebel ...
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Aristotle's Golden Balance - bad for the economy?
Matt Haig in this quote: “Happiness is not good for the economy. We
are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with
ourselves. …To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be
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Why expecting happiness while spending the least amount of effort rarely work in life?
The moral rules governing our lives can feel consistently real even though they cannot be explained by the laws of physics.
Taking drugs to make yourself happy. Having sex without an intended ...
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Is sadistic joy in the unhappiness of another person ever justified? [closed]
Is sadistic joy in the unhappiness of another person ever justified? I don't mean their physical or even mental pain but whether we are ever justified in enjoying the pillaging of someone's happiness, ...
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Arguments against the importance of happiness and possible substitutes
What arguments are there against the importance of happiness, by which I mean anything from a hedonistic mood or affect, through a world that might create feelings of happiness, and including human ...
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Does anyone talk about a will for others to see themselves?
Does anyone talk about a will for others to see themselves? I'm being a little ambiguous, I'm sure, but am trying to give up on phrases like "good" and "evil" as well as the will ...
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Aristotle's Happiness Argument [closed]
In Aristotle's view and Nicomachean Ethics, why does a person always have happiness if he once has happiness?
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Aristotle's function argument
My question lies in the reconstruction of Aristotle's argument that "The human good turns out to be activity of the soul exhibiting virtues, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance ...
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The more you learn, the more you are sad?
I've read multiple times that if you learn more, you understand more seeing the reality of things causing a sadness all over you; is that real? Or is it that the more you know the more you are happy?
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What is the best metaphor for not being able to die?
There does seem something out of the ordinary, strange, about having thoughts and feelings, let alone mine. Allow me to say that my rarity makes me valuable.
So dark matter - which makes up 27% of the ...
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Did Kierkegaard believe that we should live seeking meaning and not happiness?
Before I pose my question I want to say two things:
I have no formal training in Philosophy
I searched for similar questions but found none, please excuse me if this is a duplicate
I saw a YouTube ...
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How much suffering is needed for an overall happy life?
Premise: I have not studied Philosophy, and maybe I am out of context.
My question arises from two simple considerations:
Empirically, there seems to be no true happiness without some suffering (...
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Can happiness be purely a state of mind?
Are there any mainstream philosophers (I assume it is meaningful to define such a subset of philosophers!) who argue that happiness can be a self-induced frame of mind? To put the question another way,...
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