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If it's possible to desire things without happiness, what is the evolutionary rationale for happiness at all? Maybe what we call "happiness" is only one type of
by dooglius 7y ago
If it's possible to desire things without happiness, what is the evolutionary rationale for happiness at all? Maybe what we call "happiness" is only one type of positive feedback among many of which we might be less aware.
- lordnacho 7y agoShort-term boosts to wellbeing might make sense in a short-term world where everything is scarce. If you don't reset to become back to normal, what impetus is there to find another meal?
- bobthechef 7y agoIf a person embraces an intellectually wimpy evolutionistic metaphysics versus merely evolution as such as a means of explaining e.g. the diversity of life, then none of this really has an answer as there is truly no up, down, right, wrong, etc. Evolutionistic metaphysics begins with the presupposition that everything is purposeless and meaningless and so precludes the possibility of happiness as even a real thing. However, if a person manages to finally free himself from that bogus, high school caliber metaphysics and recover telos, you will stand a chance of coming to understand happiness in at least eudaimonic terms, that is to say, as the same as completion.
- Bakary 7y agoCan you explain how to recover "telos"?