What is it, how can we best pursue it, why should we? Supporting the study of these and related questions at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond. PHIL 3160 – Philosophy of Happiness - "Examining the concept of human happiness and its application in everyday living as discussed since antiquity by philosophers, psychologists, writers, spiritual leaders, and contributors to pop culture."
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Epicurus: lose the baggage
"Epicurus... held happiness and leisurely contemplation to be the loftiest goals in life... he found that the trouble of a troubled mind came from unnecessary mental baggage in the form of runaway desires, ambitions, ego, and fear... what the school of Epicurus taught was that man actually needed very little to be happy..." Jenny Odell, How to do Nothing
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