Water After Listerine

Some initial ideas on the spread happiness

L to happiness ... probably one of the concepts developed by human beings about which philosophy has made the debate more complex and long lasting. In nearly every philosophical system, from ancient times to today, there were traces of a discourse on happiness . On this ground, however, we encounter the first difficulties of method.

C ome says Michel Onfray, "The history covered the art of war. [...] How to deal with the fight, to measure the balance of power, to develop a strategy and appropriate tactics, manage information, silence, ignore, to emphasize the obvious, pretend, and all that implies for clashes to determine winners and losers? [...] The history of philosophy is no exception to this law .

I n this sense, the history of Western philosophy is dominated by ' philosophical idealism and is therefore a history of ideas written by the victors of the ancient battle between materialism and idealism . A historiography that seeks to increase the excitement and celebration of dominant ideas. "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie the class which is the material power dominant society is at the same time his spiritual power dominant, according to Marx. A history of ideas, therefore, aimed to credit idealistic visions of the world over the centuries, ideas, although in different shades, which allow "to justify the world as it is, and to invite turning away from here, from life, from this world, from the matter of real" (Michel Onfray).

N on surprising then that the 'idea of \u200b\u200bhappiness linked to man's earthly existence, so to speak and philosophical systems relating to it have been, the dominant philosophy of history, criticized, attacked, demonized, laughed at, if not totally obscured and knowingly left the fate of oblivion.

I the resume a speech on happiness can not Regardless, therefore, to be a rebuild historiographical aims to exploit, as it were, the ideas of the conquered , or those in the history of human thought have sided against 'hatred of the body, the excellence of death , hatred, desires, pleasures, passions, libido, the life , to put it still Onfray. Making a summary of the ideas of those who place the highest happiness as a goal to be achieved in the only life that, until proven otherwise , man lives, namely the physical, material, of this world.