Re:Money Can Buy Happiness [pdf]
by abtinf on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:02PM
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If you'd like a quick introduction to Rand's complete philosophical system, check out Leonard Peikoff's video "Introduction to Objectivism". It will help clarify a lot of the difficult statements you pointed out.
Edit: With regard to your comment about puppy videos, I'm curious what you thought about this paragraph from the article:
> It is useful to distinguish particular incidents of happiness from a
more pervasive condition. While happiness results from the achievement of
specific goals, when a person seeks happiness itself, he is after a more global
kind of satisfaction with his life—with his daily activities, as he is engaged in
them, as well as with what they all add up to, when he steps back to survey the
totality. This more encompassing happiness requires knowledge that his time
and energy are being spent in worthwhile ways and that he is efficacious in
acting for the things that he cares about.
Starts at around 3:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJD0i_WwdQ
Edit: With regard to your comment about puppy videos, I'm curious what you thought about this paragraph from the article:
> It is useful to distinguish particular incidents of happiness from a more pervasive condition. While happiness results from the achievement of specific goals, when a person seeks happiness itself, he is after a more global kind of satisfaction with his life—with his daily activities, as he is engaged in them, as well as with what they all add up to, when he steps back to survey the totality. This more encompassing happiness requires knowledge that his time and energy are being spent in worthwhile ways and that he is efficacious in acting for the things that he cares about.