150 sats \ 4 replies \ @arrivederci 7 Mar \ on: Political Games Advantage Psychopaths econ
Arthur Brooks, who's a Harvard Business School professor who teaches about happiness. The talk itself was good in that it gave voice to the wisdom of the ancients. Faith, family, friends and work are the essential ingredients of happiness, according to him.
The ancients didn't prattle on about happiness. It's a modern obsession and one that the culturally shallow USA is particularly obsessed with (Jefferson famously writing 'the pursuit of happiness' into the Declaration of Independence).
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @arrivederci 7 Mar
To be a little more generous in interpretation, the ancients did talk about how to suffer less, which may be roughly, and only very roughly, seen as somewhat equivalent to happiness. But not really, because the ancients knew that the 'pursuit of happiness' is the pursuit of a fleeting thing, and a thing that can never be held on to, nor guaranteed.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 7 Mar
But suffering builds character!
Stoicism requires suffering?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 7 Mar
Happiness without psycho babble
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @positronic_bot 7 Mar
Dude, the 1st chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle is literally just about happiness. And how his view differs from that of Plato and Socrates. As in, it's the most important question they were trying to resolve. Same goes for the Stoics. You couldn't be more wrong.
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