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In Pursuit of Happiness |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / FEATURE |
| Author: Jude Dougherty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 3,580 Words, 22,055 Characters |
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Are you happy? I was eighteen years old when I was first asked that question. I didn't know what to make of it. It had never occurred to me to put the question to myself. My friend, it turned out, had been studying Aristotle, Saint Augustine, and perhaps other authors that one encounters in a sophomore course in philosophy.
If a repairman asks, "Are you happy?" meaning "with the job," a straightforward answer can be given: "Yes," "No," or "This remains to be done." To answer the seemingly simple but probing question, "Are you happy?" may require considerable reflection and plunge one into the quagmire of self-analysis. Better, perhaps, to leave the question unanswered. No life is completely satisfactory, and to uncover life's largely unnoticed disappointments is surely the road to miser...
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...mma Theologiae, I q.62, a1. For a comprehensive treatment, see St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Happiness, trans. John A. Oesterle (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1964).
5. Richard Pipes, Property and Freedom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 45.
6. Saint Augustine, De libero arbitrio, trans. Anna S. Benjamin and L.H. Hackstaff (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964), book I, ch. 15.
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