There is proud happiness, happiness born of doing admirable things in the light of day, years of good work, and afterward being tired and content and surrounded by family and friends, enjoying a sumptuous meal, ready for a deserved rest — sleep or death, it would not matter.
"The Happiness of Objects" doesn't make it easy on the viewer.
Research seems to indicate that there's an ideal level of happiness to do well at work or school, or for your health, and that being too happy may be associated with poorer performance in these areas.
To escape the Repugnant Conclusion, all one need do is reject the conceit that the moral life is a simple matter of doing your happiness arithmetic correctly, figuring out the most utility-maximizing good and pursuing it to the maximum extent and to the exclusion of any other end.
DL: We do, but that gives you more energy and more happiness to do all of the stuff.
But these days, for some of us, happiness doesn't come from the Aristotelian concept of doing good, but from watching others do so bad.
"He really got a lot of happiness doing that".
You may notice that these views of happiness don't portray the big picture of how our happiness is connected to other people and the planet.
The work, choreographed by Nora Chipaumire and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar — it was produced by Ms. Zollar's Urban Bush Women and commissioned by Harlem Stage — explores being a foreigner in America, where ideas of liberty and the pursuit of happiness don't tell the whole story.
'Our river does not have a price, our fish that we eat does not have a price, and the happiness of our grandchildren does not have a price.
