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Where we start: Plato on Happiness (2/2)
Posted by fiona in Sugar Blossom Tips
Before taking up Plato’s reaction to (what he presents as) Gorgias’
view, I must mention that the view that well-being consists in getting
what you want reappears in various forms throughout the history of
happiness.
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read comments (0)Where We Start: Plato on Happiness (1/2)
Posted by fiona in Sugar Blossom Tips
As so often, Plato made the first move. In his Gorgias and Republic he
took his start from the recognition that we have plural and conflicting
desires, aims, impulses, etc., and that somehow we have to deal with
that fact. He can hardly have been the first to notice the fact of plurality and conflict, but he was the first to react to it systematically.
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Plural and Conflicting Aims: A good account of happiness
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When we ask ourselves how we think in normal circumstances about
our state or condition, what presents itself to us is a plurality of
things. They present themselves under various rubrics. One “aims”
to do or achieve or acquire certain things. One “wants” this and that
and the other. One believes that such-and-such and so-and-so would
be “worthwhile” to do or experience. One knows that one would
“enjoy” or “welcome” certain things and not others. In each such
category a number of things come to mind. All of them are eligible
for figuring in one’s plans and choices. Read the rest of this entry »
The Science of Happiness
Posted by fiona in Sugar Blossom Tips
The word “happy” is familiar. It isn’t especially philosophical. It
expresses a concept, happiness, that we take ourselves to understand
at least to some degree. “Are you happy?,” one woman asked
another in a coffee house not long ago. “Well . . . ,” the second
began, “Well, yes, but certain things bother me”; then she was
unfortunately interrupted and didn’t finish, and when she spoke
again it was about something else. Read the rest of this entry »
Dress to Impress with Facelift?
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Panic job searchers rushing themselves undergoing plastic surgery as the going gets tough. Although the economic downturn have took a cut out of plastic surgery in 2008 with U.S. cosmetic surgeries down to 9%, but with for getting economically brighter future, some people thinks that it would be better to get a younger and “fresher” look preparing for the more-than-ever-competitive job market.
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