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Can someone feel happy (or feel any other emotion, for that matter) without being aware of it?
Can someone feel an emotion (sad or angry or bored etc.) without being aware that they do?
Perhaps they only realize at a later time that, "I was happy back then, but I wasn't aware that I was so&...
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When did Epicureanism and Sybaritism become conflated?
As I understand it, for Epicurus, a happy life required ataraxía (?ταραξ?α), friendship, freedom and the time and tranquility to examine one's life. However, over the past 23 centuries or so, somehow, ...
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If the three primary formulations of the categorical imperative are successive refinements (per Allen Wood), why doesn't Kant mention this later?
If there is an ordering to the UL (universal law), H (humanity), and LO (law unto oneself) formulae, such that UL < H < LO, then wouldn't Kant have thought, in the Religion, that putting the ...
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The problematic nature of the aggregation of happiness in Utilitarianism?
I've long had some suspicions about the problematic nature of aggregating utility via the use of numeric measure and addition of quantities associated with happiness.
Is the assumption in ...
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How can we live a regular life while so many are in severe distress
One of my interests is helping other people, contributing to the general well-being of others, but it is difficult to choose what action to support as there are so many issues and limited resources (...
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Can it be said that the absence of suffering is equal to happiness? [closed]
This question means that there is no happiness and it is a variable of suffering And the change of suffering represents happiness
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Do any philosophers hold that a person needs to think thoroughly about their drives?
During my life I've met a lot of people, and I've realized that a lot of them don't seem to grasp completely what makes them happy. I've met some that hate immigration but arent able to express why ...
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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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