
Get Happy
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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You Dimonia Is a Good Life Well Lived
Epicurus, the great philosopher who was the proponent of this and a sort of the father of this way of thinking, he was a deeply moral guy. He didn't want any of these empty pleasures, because he understood that one of the great sources of happiness is enjoyment, not pleasure. You need to have well ordered enjoyments in your life to have the levity that actually can come in from a, you well balanced notion of what happiness means. And for me, as far as i'm concerned, that's kind of the right formula, based on modern social science, but also on my intuition for the best life.
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