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Single Idea 4558
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Full Idea
One has no right to 'happiness': the individual human being is in precisely the same case as the lowest worm.
Gist of Idea
We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §759)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.399
A Reaction
This seems an obvious truth, but nicely made clear. It is, I suppose, aimed at Christians and socialists.
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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