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Are there any philosophers that were actually happy/content?

Hard mode: No major religious philosophers (including Buddhism/Buddha, Lao Tzu, etc.)

>inb4 muh spooks

>> No.8960272

>>8960252
socrates

>> No.8960282

>>8960252
Epicurus, at least he claimed he was.

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>>8960252
>Take me for example, all happy and so on and so on

>> No.8960308

>>8960252
Philosophers tend to be reclusive and their unhappiness more likely comes from their social ineptitudes than their philosophy.

>> No.8960312

montaigne.

>> No.8960325

>>8960252
not any good ones

>> No.8960335

aristippus too happy if anything

>> No.8960337

>>8960252

Nietzsche

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Moly is smiling in all his videos. Cheery guy.

>> No.8960360

is smugness a form of contentment?

>> No.8960379

Im sure the greeks led happy lives