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Article: Happiness, theoria, and everyday life.
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- January 1, 2003
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Everyday Happiness
Why is it that we choose our unhappiness? Any answer to this question would seem to refer us to the ambiguous quality of everyday life. It is possible to argue that everyday life, left to itself in its full immediacy provides a pure unreflected happiness. This happiness would be one of simplicity, innocence and (possibly) animality. Think of Nietzsche's cow grazing in the field with no thought of today or tomorrow, no sense of its death, of necessity, of the limits of life, or of its own located personality (60-61). Such happiness is 'everyday' precisely because it is not burdened with perspectives of life as a whole; it is, in itself, nothing ...
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