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#033 - Carl Cederstrom - What Happens When You Dedicate A Year To Optimising Your Life & The Happiness Fantasy

Modern Wisdom

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The Crisis of a Loss of Meaning

Aristotle believed that happiness could only be enjoyed by the gods, not by human beings. In Renaissance, happiness started to become seen as something that humans could glimpse at. And then it's in the enlightenment and with interestingly philosophers like Mikey Desad, but also Rousseau and others were happiness becomes a thing you should achieve.

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