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Often appears with: pleasure, pain, and the good life · justice as a virtue · will, choice, and freedom · wealth · virtue and pleasure · utopian reasoning · the problem of evil and theodicy · the passions and the emotions · the nature and attributes of God · stoicism vs pascal · reason and the intellect · rational creatures
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“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensées · insight
“What we experience in dreams, provided we experience it often, pertains at last just as much to the general belongings of our soul as anything "actually" experienced.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil · insight
Nietzsche remarks that expressions of eyes and muscles reflect inner states, then argues that frequent dream experiences shape desires and happiness in waking life, including a preference for “flying” over poetic flight.
play of the muscles and of the expression of the eyes MUST therefore be imagined by me. Probably the person put on quite a different expression, or none at all. 193. Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit: but also contrariwise. What we experience in dreams, provided we experience it often, pertains at last just as much to the general belongings of our soul as anything "actually" experienced; by virtue thereof we are ric…
Utopian moral philosophy mirrors European debates about the nature of good, virtue, pleasure, and especially happiness, with many arguing that happiness chiefly lies in pleasure.
partly as our ancient philosophers have done, and partly upon some new hypothesis, in which, as they differ from them, so they do not in all things agree among themselves. “As to moral philosophy, they have the same disputes among them as we have here. They examine what are properly good, both for the body and the mind; and whether any outward thing can be called truly *good*, or if that term belong only to the endo…
The text announces Question 2’s eight inquiries about happiness, asking whether it consists in wealth, honor, fame, power, bodily goods, pleasure, goods of the soul, or any created good.
is not possible to other creatures, which acquire their last end, in so far as they share in the Divine likeness, inasmuch as they are, or live, or even know. Hence it is evident how the objections are solved: since happiness means the acquisition of the last end. ________________________ QUESTION 2 OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH MAN'S HAPPINESS CONSISTS (In Eight Articles) We have now to consider happiness: and (1) in…
Aquinas discusses whether any pleasure can be the greatest good, arguing that while not every pleasure is ultimate, a human pleasure can be greatest as perfect repose in the perfect good, tied to happiness.
Happiness is not without pleasure: for it is written (Ps. 15:11): "Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance; at Thy right hand are delights even to the end." *I answer that,* Plato held neither with the Stoics, who asserted that all pleasures are evil, nor with the Epicureans, who maintained that all pleasures are good; but he said that some are good, and some evil; yet, so that no pleasure be the sovereign …
Pascal contrasts interior self-renewal and external amusement as false paths, arguing that happiness is neither outside nor inside humans but is found in God, both within and beyond us.
*Philosophers.*--We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness outside ourselves. Our passions impel us outside, even when no objects present themselves to excite them. External objects tempt us of themselves, and call to us, even when we are not thinking of them. And thus philosophers have said in vain, "Retire within yourselves, you will find your …