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Single Idea 1452
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Full Idea
Happiness is the condition of a rational being in the world with whom everything goes according to his wish and will.
Gist of Idea
Happiness is the condition of a rational being for whom everything goes as they wish
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason [1788], I.II.II.V)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Practical Reason (Third edition)', ed/tr. Beck,Lewis White [Library of Liberal Arts 1993], p.131
A Reaction
For such a sophisticated and rational philosopher this seems a rather crude notion. Reluctant alcoholics don't fit. Bradley has a much better definition (Idea 5655).
Related Idea
Idea 5655
Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton]
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[what is the intrinsic nature of happiness?]:
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25
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You can be good while asleep, or passive, or in pain
[Aristotle]
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5136
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Happiness seems to involve virtue, or practical reason, or wisdom, or pleasure, or external goods
[Aristotle]
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5868
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Horses, birds and fish are not happy, lacking a divine aspect to their natures
[Aristotle]
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22753
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Happiness for the Stoics was an equable flow of life
[Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
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13303
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is
[Seneca]
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13550
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To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature
[Seneca]
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6922
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Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man
[Plotinus, by Feuerbach]
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5756
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Happiness is a good which once obtained leaves nothing more to be desired
[Boethius]
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12927
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Happiness is advancement towards perfection
[Leibniz]
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6252
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Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations
[Hutcheson]
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6193
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Our happiness is all that matters, not as a sensation, but as satisfaction with our whole existence
[Kant]
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1452
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Happiness is the condition of a rational being for whom everything goes as they wish
[Kant]
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23274
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World history has no room for happiness
[Hegel]
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4172
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Happiness is the swift movement from desire to satisfaction, and then again on to desire
[Schopenhauer]
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7168
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Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad'
[Nietzsche]
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22497
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Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life
[Foot]
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22498
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Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends
[Foot]
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5079
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Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't
[Taylor,R]
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