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Happiness has become an almost insoluble dilemma, and the pursuit of it is a real obstacle to a good life. 'People who seek only material gain risk their lives lightly. Is this not a mistake of our generation?' asked Chuang-Tzu as far back as the middle of the fourth century B.C. More than two thousand years have passed. Today, scientific knowledge and technological progress have brought infinite opportunities, an overabundance of information and countless objects of consumption within our reach. However, dissatisfaction, restlessness, acceleration and fatigue are everywhere. Enjoying the mome...
Happiness has become an almost insoluble dilemma, and the pursuit of it is a real obstacle to a good life. 'People who seek only material gain risk their lives lightly. Is this not a mistake of our generation?' asked Chuang-Tzu as far back as the middle of the fourth century B.C. More than two thousand years have passed. Today, scientific knowledge and technological progress have brought infinite opportunities, an overabundance of information and countless objects of consumption within our reach. However, dissatisfaction, restlessness, acceleration and fatigue are everywhere. Enjoying the moment, being fully in the present has become a quasi-heroic aspiration. So much so that various therapies and prodigious offers aimed at alleviating this discomfort are increasingly appearing on the 'emotional market'. Faced with the mandate 'be happy' proclaimed by our society of excess, perhaps the most sensible thing to do is to try to live well and as happily as possible. Drawing on Aristotle, Seneca, Horace, Montaigne, Voltaire and contemporary writers, Ruben D. Gualtero reflects here on the meaning we give to our temporality, our relationship with ourselves, others, nature, things and even God, to reformulate an ethics of joy and moderation that will help us achieve a fuller existence.
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