I don’t even buy that there is a large happiness component. I would not be surprised to find that in a hundred years we look back on the modern western preoccupation with happiness as mostly a strange cultural phenomenon. The analogous thing looking back on the past might be 11th century monks thinking of something like serving Christ as a large component of “true utility,” or whatever.
I don’t even buy that there is a large happiness component. I would not be surprised to find that in a hundred years we look back on the modern western preoccupation with happiness as mostly a strange cultural phenomenon. The analogous thing looking back on the past might be 11th century monks thinking of something like serving Christ as a large component of “true utility,” or whatever.
(But yes, I would be happier with this framing.)