Saturday, June 25, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Measure happiness? Hahaahahaha!

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2022-06-25]: Using innovative new methods researchers have built a new index that uses data from books and newspaper to track levels of national happiness from 1820. Their research could help governments to make better decisions about policy priorities. [1] How sad. We believe we can define and measure happiness. But being happy is something you can never comprehend. It is like loving a painting or feeling full by listening to a piece of music. You are happy when you are with your kid. You feel happy when sitting with your grandparents. But for no particular reason. Every data you have indicates that you shouldn’t. You will die anyway. Everyone will vanish from this cosmos. Why be happy for anything? And yet you are. No, it is not a problem that you do not know why. This is the reason why you are happy! And you know that very well...

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