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Aristotle’s Ultimate Purpose Of Life
Eudaimonia, or the state of flourishing was discussed by Aristotle as a better approach towards life, instead of making it a constant pleasure parade.
This ultimate purpose of life is realized through our actions, choices, responses and habits. Happiness, according to Aristotle, is not something that one experiences, but something that is done.
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Living In The Matrix
Philosopher Robert Nozick asks a hypothetical question which is also shown in movies like The Matrix and Vanilla Sky.
Would we use a machine that gives us any experience we want, letting us live the life of our dreams in a virtual world, while we are lying still in a ...
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The Meaning Of A Good Life
Maximisation of pleasure is erroneously thought to be the path towards a good life. Avoidance of pain, disappointment, injury, sickness, boredom, loneliness and sadness is what is generally pursued by all, not realizing that pain and suffering are inevitable if one is alive.
Philosophers l...
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Our Fixation With Happiness
- Most of us actively try to build our lives around a constant state of happiness.
- The problem is that very few people choose to do great things or want to make an effort to achieve something (which results in happiness).
- Instead, most people simply rush towards attaining h...
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Deriving Meaning Through Suffering
Nietzsche, the famous philosopher, argues that man seeks pain as long as it brings him meaning, and eventually happiness, contentment, or satisfaction. The fire of misery and suffering isn’t extinguished with pleasure, but with meaning.
If our suffering is worthwhile, we are on the...
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Virtuous Action And The Middle Path
Just like bravery lies between the two extremes of cowardice and foolhardiness, virtuous action lies between the extremes of pleasure-seeking and listlessness.
Happiness is in effect connected to virtue, and any flourishing requires others, making happiness less of an emotional state, and ...
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Life Is Nothing Without Pain
Anything good in life requires some amount of toil and suffering.
Writing a novel, preparing and eventually running a marathon, or giving birth requires sacrifice, patience, pain and suffering, eventually producing something meaningful and joyous.
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Plato And Eudaimonism
- Plato believed that because we feel unhappy internally when we do something wrong, eudaimonia is the highest feeling of moral thought and behaviour where there is real happiness from within. Happiness, according to him, was about living in the pursuit of various virtues, central to flourish...
The psychology of happiness
- Hedonic happiness is happiness conceptualized as experiencing more pleasure and less pain; it is composed of an affective component (high positive affect and low negative affect) and a cognitive component (satisfaction with one’s life);
- Eudaimonic happiness conceptualizes happiness a...
The Good Life
The approach towards daily life is poles apart between a 9-to-5 worker and an artist.
Normally, work is stressful and has to be done out of responsibility, but for an artist, life is not a to-do list of tasks. Your endeavors are your exotic destinations, and your purpose is to enjoy the ...
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