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The quest for authenticity
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Are We Trying to Live an Authentic Life?
If we're trying to live an authentic life, is happiness t goal? It seems to me that if we take happiness as the primary aim, then we're likely to give ourselves over to diversions and cheap pleasures. Yes ly, i don't think happiness is something we can pursue directly. And either did bouvois. Most of her writing does focus on freedom, but there's this theme of happiness that keeps coming back. She saw happy ness as a kind of flourishing that comes from living in harmony with the world.
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