ignorance is bliss?

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I think wisdom has it's limits...Those scenes in Groundhog Day illustrate how if your life was extended indefinitely, and you picked up a lot of knowledge, it wouldn't in itself make you any happier.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Its limits even...There was a good published earlier this year by a LSE lecturer on how society could work to promote happiness. There are some lectures on his webpage

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought this would be about Logged Out.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i would recommend that anyone who is interested in the concept of altruism/happiness/the link therein reads...

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

fuck it, i typed in those < tags in so carefully.

― angle of dateh, Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

knowledge is power(fully depressing)!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the woman next to me is proof that ignorance is bliss

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

as ive sung for years - denial is a girls best friend

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I like and want to know everything I can about every topic...except if I had a fatal disease. If that occurred, I would prefer to live out my days not knowing I am soon gonna be fish bait.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

ignorance aint' bliss, but sometimes the world is a BIIIT too much with us

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

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

+1
But i think both readings are ok

― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link

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