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Better health is considered essential
for human happiness and well - being.
Perhaps the most thoroughly post-modern, post-pessimistic act Herzog commits is his decision, at the close of the novel, not to go mad — his decision
for human happiness.
There is a desire to discover supernatural laws
for human happiness, a willingness to cooperate with a purpose higher than the transitory human purpose, a longing to communicate with the Creator and an attempt to grasp some security which transcends physical death.
Our profession need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value
for human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does not meet the requirements for a psyc disorder.
• A grotesque misunderstanding of «tolerance» and «fairness,» rooted in an even more comprehensive delusion about what makes
for human happiness, which isn't «I did it my way.»
And it could occasion educative moral discourse — about giving and receiving, about loving and being loved, and about what makes
for human happiness.
Our profession need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value
for human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does not meet the requirements for a psy disorder.
• Materialism as the sole basis
for human happiness and success, a materialism that is blind to the deeper joy that is possible in adversity or prosperity.
Face - to - face communication happens to be not only essential
for human happiness but also could be the missing link to some of the most powerful, long - term health benefits.
Not exact matches
We see that in creating those types of spaces, there is an amazing
human potential
for excitement and
happiness.
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Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make
for happiness and
human flourishing.
Hatred is what they certainly project, not love
for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred
for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against
human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings
happiness to
human life.
A Whiteheadian political theory, then, should have due regard
for the biological and «material» conditions of
human existence, recognizing that these yield their own measure of self - enjoyment.11 Also included in private
happiness are the nonshared aspects of the individual's dialogue with himself or herself.
With respect to the teleology of the universe,
humans are in principle equals, and the proper principle
for ethical deliberation is maximal
happiness as such.10
In large measure, however, these relations are not preconditions
for but properly a part of the public world, i.e., they yield
happiness beyond some minimal degree because nature is, as it were, taken into the
human community.
For this reason alone, I believe, there is no general justification for aristocratic principles, i.e., for subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatev
For this reason alone, I believe, there is no general justification
for aristocratic principles, i.e., for subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatev
for aristocratic principles, i.e.,
for subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatev
for subordination of one society of
humans to the
happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatever.
Since
happiness is the good
for a
human individual, it can only be
human value
for self.
Each of the three will denote the good
for a
human individual.1 Because of its long association with the liberal tradition, «interest» is so often used to mean an individual's private
happiness that the phrase «private view of interest» may seem redundant.
We all seek
happiness and fulfilment, and we who believe know that these come from God alone; many others, however, seek
happiness elsewhere and, while this may satisfy them
for a while, it can not answer the fundamental questions that arise in the
human heart.
Since
human beings are created by God and
for God, we must come into contact with Him to receive what we need
for our fulfilment and
happiness, since the material world alone is insufficient to meet all our needs.
Secular sterility The Church's vision of marriage and family is so hard
for young Catholics to encounter, yet it offers them the key to true
human happiness and fulfilment.
A new World
Human Order, after all the blood and tears of war, was dawning, with colonies liberated, technology trained and tamed to make the pursuit of
happiness a universally accessible opportunity and tranquil environs, with peace and security, a blessing
for development and crimson unfoldment of total personality.
They had one supreme theory: that the perfect beauty and
happiness of cities and of
human life was to be brought about by more factories; they had a mania
for factories; there was nothing they would not do to cajole a factory away from another city; and they were never more piteously embittered than when another city cajoled one away from them.
There are many un-asked
for human conditions which limit our lives and our short term
happiness.
The joy of the gospel of marriage springs from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the good news of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that is inseparable from the Truth, who frees the
human person and reveals to him what it means to be
human.4 Only in Jesus does every
human being discover what it means to be truly
human, to be made
for God and to live in relationship with God, to have true
happiness.
When in the course of
human events, it becomes necessary
for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
We rightly use our technical mastery to augment
human happiness by satisfying our individual projects, our desire
for a child «of one's own.»
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For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «By the word «
happiness» every
human being understands something different.
To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades
for human emancipation and
happiness.
Augustine and Aquinas, of course, do argue
for a plan in history and
for a
human end of
happiness — and
for the reality, if one is not too squeamish to use the word, of heaven.
The idea was affirmed by Benjamin Rush who called
for a university dedicated to «those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen
human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the
human understanding, and establish domestic, social and political
happiness.»
They know the alternative amounts to little more than hollow sentimentalities, sugar - coated falsehoods: sweet to taste, deadly to
human happiness, fatal
for the common good.
For instance, such a character can not enjoy meaningful relationships, which are essential to
human happiness.
The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of
happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard
for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search
for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing
for God, and the confrontation of death.
Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had
for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of
human happiness and justice (p. 179).
Throughout his preaching, he holds forth two and only two final possibilities
for human existence: the one being everlasting
happiness in the presence of God, the other everlasting torment in the absence of God.
A smile,
for example, signifies
happiness across all cultures because smiles are genetically encoded responses common to all
human beings.
God's plan
for the
human race «from the beginning» is a nuptial plan, a plan that is profoundly incarnational, and a plan that invites our co-operation,
for our
happiness here and in the hereafter.
After the necessities
for survival are met, healthy relationships contribute much more to
human happiness than does the increase of consumption of goods and services.
From this we also point out that
human beings find wholeness and
happiness uniquely in relationship to God, whose loving intervention we must expect and look
for throughout history.
If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire
for goodness and
happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a
human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each
human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.
Jefferson's «self - evident» truths were deistic ones: The pursuit of
happiness is understood to be what God intended
for humans from the creation, in contrast to traditional Christianity's understanding of the pre-eminent importance of glorifying God.
The new formula, in consequence, was that man's
happiness and misery come from God as the evidence of his favor or disfavor; that one thing supremely pleases God, moral goodness, and one thing supremely he hates, moral evil; that whenever men are fortunate they must have been virtuous and whenever they are wretched they must have transgressed; that all
human suffering is thus punishment
for sin — «Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?»
The reason liberal democracy may be appropriate
for our civil society is that as a pluralistic society, we have little hope of reaching complete agreement concerning the
human good and the proper way to pursue
happiness.
We affirm that economics is, above all, concerned with
human well - being and
happiness in society and with care
for the Earth.
For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of
human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»
Like the desire
for happiness, Mill claims that this desire
for unity is «a powerful principle in
human nature.»