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Riffing on some ideas coming up after reading previous comments. Happiness can be an internal story you are using to explain the meaning of the pleasures you are experiencing. Yet, happiness is also considered a feeling -- when it is vicerally felt in the the body as an extention of relief or pleasure. A happy life is assumed to be a life full of good experiences, and we would assume that there is a great number of pleasurable experiences (both physical and mental) that happen in a happy life. C…
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(Quote from Godfrey) Hmmm...I wasn't thinking about homestasis when I wrote my post earlier (and need to go back to see what Don said about that). Is there a "recipe" for how to make happiness? (the following things are needed for happiness): --Both physical and mental pleasures --Assurance of security in the future (basic necessities and safety) --Freedom from fear of death and God(s) --Physical health So...this means that pleasure is easier to get than happiness. In fact, I was thinking that t…
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(Quote from Godfrey) It does seem that everyone has their own subjective idea about what happiness is. (Quote from Godfrey) Chronic pain can lead to depression. Pleasure is a natural by-poduct of activities such as eating food, regardless of feeling "happy". So happiness is something else beyond pleasure. (Quote from Cassius) I was just thinking about how there is something in that "On Ends" which says that Epicurus was the masterbuilder of the life of happiness. (Quote from Cassius) The conflic…
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Diogenes of Oinoanda doesn't help to clear up things for me, because it doesn't saying what it means by happiness. Thinking further on this, off the top of my head: -- "happiness" is a feeling of enjoyment that comes when we experience pleasure, and this feeling comes and goes depending on the situation. -- "happiness" can also be thought of as something encompassing a longer period of time (for example looking back over the past year and also projecting onto future months) -- when you feel plea…
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Some very good ideas from an article on fun: (Quote)
