The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
by David Malouf
2020-04-22 01:25:26
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
by David Malouf
2020-04-22 01:25:26
By arguably Australia's greatest author, a succinct and intense meditation on what makes a happy life. "Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous," begins David Malouf. But, what is it exactly that we're lookin...
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By arguably Australia's greatest author, a succinct and intense meditation on what makes a happy life.
"Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous," begins David Malouf. But, what is it exactly that we're looking for when we chase happiness? At this unique moment in history when privileged, industrialized nations have diminished much of what makes us unhappy--illness, famine--why are we still unable to find happiness, resorting instead to yoga, church, match.com, drugs, clinical therapy, and retail therapy?
Malouf doesn't have a quick fix on offer. Instead he takes us through an exploration of happiness consulting with, among many others, Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Thomas Jefferson, who he argues may have first divided the notion of "happiness" from material satisfaction when he crafted his most famous demand: "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
"The Happy Life" is at once a penetrating, entertaining, and eminently readable work.
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