Ian Olasov 'Ask a Philosopher - answers to the most important questions'
The New Abnormal
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Is Your Life Satisfying?
Life satisfaction seems to be determined by all these factors which have nothing to do with how well your life is actually going. So preferences can be determined by a sort of bad information or sort of irrelevant factors like social comparison, which detach them from your am,. The emotion theory has something going for it, um, a, but i think it's incomplete because some actors that affect our are well being just aren't emotions. Pleasure comes from intimate relationships and when you are more alive to the range of those flavors and forms, this idea that pleasure is just an nugatory thing becomes less plausible.
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