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Happiness – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 62
The Very Short Introductions Podcast
What Makes for a Good Life?
Some things seem to benefit us like success in our projects, actually having loving relationships and so forth beyond how they make us feel. So for instance, if you feel great, but only because you're completely deluded about what your life is really like, then it isn't clear that you're doing well. And most people don't envy someone in that kind of situation. A slaveholder might for instance be happy and even flourishing as most people reckon it; we have some data suggesting that is actually possible. But a society that accepts certain kind of immorality and that's still a terrible life, it's not a good life. Few people, at least what we've looked at,
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