HNRS 2020 Lecture 1: Full Semester Notes
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Counts against both hedonism and desire satisfaction views of happiness. There are more important things in life than happiness, or. Happiness is something other than the above. There is more to life than happiness. But, a life needs to contain certain things in order for it to be worthy of being happy or satisfied about. What is you specify to the machine and make me believe it"s authentic". What we want is a life and a self that happiness is a fitting response to, and then give it that response. The ability to control or direct one"s life. Can"t unplug from the machine once committed. Most of our lives are out of our own control. Part of world we are born in. Having these desires satisfied is a necessary condition of a good life. The purpose of a life, it"s telos (end at which it aims) is to live it well.
