Happiness is most like a "moment of grace"
redcomrad
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Tue Jan 25 18:16:42 CST 2011
hard to lick Aristotle's definitions: the happy person is active in accordance with complete virtue. ---- On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:22:07 -0500 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote ---- I await a successful definition of happiness. What most folks seem to call happiness these days looks to me like an hysterical displacement of anxiety rather than any condition of actual well-being. Might happiness and grace be similar? Even bound as mutually conditional? Perhaps. It would be an interesting essay to pursue. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote: > And the root of the word comes from the root for "chance"!..... > That TRP!?................................... > > PhilosophyExp Andrew Anthony talks to French philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, about > the nature of #happiness. http://is.gd/SMBLIA > > > > -- Klaatu barada nikto
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