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so i think
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the history of helps us
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understand
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a wide term
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because essentially it is
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a more than 2000-year of a
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concept
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that have been
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over three questions first what is
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happiness
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secondly and thirdly
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who decides
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so if we
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take the what is happiness
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well that is essentially a battle
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between of
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happiness
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the one side you have Aristotle, uh..
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says that
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2000 years ago happiness is purpose
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happiness is what's doing right for
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on the other you have happiness is
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so Epicurus, essentially the Hugh Hefner
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of the antique,
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believed that you know maximizing
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pleasure minimizing pain
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happiness is
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I think after 2 000 years we've
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certainly merged
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and people might
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be hedonists or
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have of Aristotle
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but i think for the
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happiness is something in between so
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it's it's not
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abstaining and it's not having
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orgies it's just having really good sex
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with your wife um
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so so perhaps that's where they meet so
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that's perhaps where
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what is happiness from and
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to
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in terms of are we happy the the
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history there is a
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development over are we happy in this
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life
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or in a so if you
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take
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Christianity um there was a
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conception
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of of happiness they
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admitting because you know work
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from
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Aristotle came back into to Europe in
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the Renaissance
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and Aristotle talked about happiness in
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this life so the church had to
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whereas earlier that said that happiness
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was only in the
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so they started to work with a dual
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dual conception of happiness that said
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yet yes there is happiness in this life
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but if we sort of a lot of
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a lot of trouble we sacrifice
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ourselves then we'll experience
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the real happiness in the afterlife so
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that is also the development that we've
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seen over time.. uh... in
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this life
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or is it something for
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for the afterlife?
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so when are we happy and then thirdly
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who decides
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in the antique it was the gods
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to decide who happy and was
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reserved for the
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one of the good things
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with with christianity for example was a
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sort of a democratization of happiness
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that suddenly everybody could become
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happy
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happiness in the afterlife
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and during the happiness
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also became something that governments
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and we ourselves
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were in charge in
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the declaration of we can
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see that in the sort of highlight of the
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enlightenment it's written into a
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grand
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that yes we have the life or we
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the
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to life, liberty, and
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pursuit of happiness
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and and that shows
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from happiness was something that the
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decided
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who were who who could achieve to
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something that we were in charge over
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and and that is where we are today