Happiness is most like a "moment of grace"

[redcomrad]

The definitions are provided in Aristotle's Ethics.  http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html   Jimmy Jay's Grammar has much devine madness on it, put a winder where we wind wen we were wee and see what way we whishpering bee, buzz, by a fly when we all, like J & M must fly to Tophet or to Edenville.       ---- On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:40:51 -0500 Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote ----   But the meaning of all those abstract terms need definition unless one lives in a community that has agreed upon definitions for them or one has some sort of access to absolute knowledge, maybe a phone line to Edenville. -----Original Message----- From: redcomrad Sent: Jan 26, 2011 6:45 PM To: Cc: Pynchon-L Subject: Re: Happiness is most like a "moment of grace"  Excellence of character is virtue. Happiness is the active life of a virtuous individual or a person of excellent character.    Ah, the Good Life. It is not for most people.       ---- On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:35:54 -0500 Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote ----   Now define virtue. -----Original Message----- From: redcomrad Sent: Jan 25, 2011 7:16 PM To: pynchon-l Subject: Re: Happiness is most like a "moment of grace"  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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