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Single Idea 22985
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Full Idea
Surely happiness is what everyone wants, so much so that there can be none who do not want it?
Gist of Idea
Everyone wants happiness
Source
Augustine (Confessions [c.398], X.20)
Book Ref
Augustine: 'Confessions', ed/tr. Pine-Coffin,R.S. [Penguin 1961], p.226
A Reaction
His concept of happiness is, of course, religious. Occasionally you meet habitual grumblers about life who give the impression that they are only happy when they are discontented. So happiness is achieving desires, not feeling good?
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[how important is happiness?]:
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2681
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Aristotle is unsure about eudaimonia because he is unsure what people are
[Nagel on Aristotle]
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5132
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Goods like pleasure are chosen partly for happiness, but happiness is chosen just for itself
[Aristotle]
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30
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Happiness is perfect and self-sufficient, the end of all action
[Aristotle]
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14522
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What happens to me if I obtain all my desires, and what if I fail?
[Epicurus]
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22985
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Everyone wants happiness
[Augustine]
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6210
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Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end
[Hobbes]
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1386
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A concern for happiness is the inevitable result of consciousness
[Locke]
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1454
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Morality is not about making ourselves happy, but about being worthy of happiness
[Kant]
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21061
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Duty does not aim at an end, but gives rise to universal happiness as aim of the will
[Kant]
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2891
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Only the English actually strive after happiness
[Nietzsche]
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4500
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It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail
[Nietzsche]
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4558
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We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms
[Nietzsche]
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18307
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I want my work, not happiness!
[Nietzsche]
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7983
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Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune
[Baudrillard]
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