grimly, i appreciate baggini too, i subscribe to his >a href="http://www.philosophersnet.com/<magazine>/a<. i've just picked this book up but I haven't read it yet. at the risk of appearing glib meself, aristotle thought about this question, right? eudaimoneia is bliss: a human life that develops happily by exercising reason to discern a moral purpose beyond fear, emotion and ignorance.
there's a sense in which knowledge and wisdom aren't equivalent to one another. if i've got it right, aristotle thought that wisdom is the 'common sense' idea that life is about happiness, so working out what that really means for us as individuals should make living more and more exciting, not less.
― angle of dateh, Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― angle of dateh, Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Bliss is not checking the news, stocks, or btc since Friday.
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
The original saying was "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise", which seems much more nuanced and balanced than the thread title, which reduces it to a blanket endorsement of ignorance as invariably blissful. Which is bunkum.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
+1But i think both readings are ok
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link