Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Psychology
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The Only Thing That Drives Human Beings Is Happiness
Happiness is not just getting an ice cream cone and getting that immediate rush of pleasure, but my definition of happiness is looking back on my life and feeling that it's fulfilled and so far. The question is whether happiness is the subjective side only of something that we only desire in so far as we assume that the subjective side is brought about by what it objectively seems to be brought about by. Fulfilment is a good feeling, but not of or not in such a sensual way,. A, that seems to leave off the objective side of things.
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