The Psychology of Happiness

If you're convinced, like the Stoics are, that happiness must be attainable, then you don't have to pretend, if you know about the afterlife, that it is attainable in the afterlife, perfect happiness. That's the whole point of something being intrinsically evil and intrinsic evil is something that can't be justified by any possible result. And this, the psychology of this kind of thing works in other areas besides happiness too. If there's no God to take care of the consequences, then I've got to play God. You may do any atrocity whatsoever in order to try to make things right. This life is all there is. And, and somehow I'vegot to

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