PHIL 3160 – Philosophy of Happiness

What is it, how can we best pursue it, why should we? Supporting the study of these and related questions at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond. "Examining the concept of human happiness and its application in everyday living as discussed since antiquity by philosophers, psychologists, writers, spiritual leaders, and contributors to pop culture."

Monday, December 27, 2021

Unhappily adaptive

E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92

"The lesson for man is that personal happiness has very little to do with all this," he wrote. "It is possible to be unhappy and very adaptive." NYT

[But recall Darwin: "The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply."]

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