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19292324 No.19292324 [Reply] [Original]

>happiness doesn't exist
Is he right?

>> No.19292943

>>19292324
No, he was still under the thrall of an unrealistic, Christian or, at best, Grecian conception of "happiness" (felicitá, eudaimonia).
The titans of modern scientific thought had not yes been born, or hadn't begun to publish their work.
He had no chance of reading Feuerbach, Stirner, Darwin or Dawkins and be enlightened by them.
Happiness is being "euphoric in the moment" as the old adage goes, not because of some phony god, but by one's own thoughts (gioia).

>> No.19293692

>>19292943
>enlightened
>by dawkins
lmao

>> No.19293697

no
t. been happy before, is happy right now, will ostensibly be happy in the future

>> No.19293741

>>19292324
"Happyness" is just a chemical reaponse in your brain. Contentment can only be achieved if you have a purpose I.E. believe in something greater or 'greatness' in itself; hence, you get things like metaphysics and idealism but even just simple thngs like having a family.

>> No.19294151

>>19292324
Is this how Italians think they look? lmao