In chapter 1 Haybron quotes Crito to Socrates, who awaited execution. I think this really depicts the extremely mindful person that Socrates was. Crito seems to be saying that he always knew that Socrates was highly filled with mindfulness; but that he can't believe that even in, what would be an extremely terrifying experience to anyone else, that Socrates maintains that unaltered state of mindfulness (even when awaiting his own death. )
Quotes Daniel Everett who had studied the Pirahas lifestyle, and what makes their society such a happy place to live; as they live in the Amazon, without the materialistic things that we are accustomed to in our society, but when studied by psychologist have appeared to be some of the happiest people ever. Everett had written that he had once asked the Pariaha's if they knew why he was there; and judging from their responses it seems that they were oblivious to why someone would want to study them or that somebody was. It seems that they assumed that he felt the same way that they did, that it was just wonderful place to be.
At the end of the chapter, Haybron begins to outline the same different outlooks on happiness, as he had described in his encyclopedia entry; and then throws in a little humor by telling the readers that if they're just interested and finding out quickly the meaning of happiness they don't have to proceed through the whole book, for they could simply just read chapters 1, 2, 5 and 8. Lol.
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