This is just the idea that we should prefer a conception of happiness that vindicates our profound interest in the matter, that best enables us to satisfy our practical, and perhaps theoretical, purposes relating to happiness. Moreover, we make a variety of systematic errors in the pursuit of happiness. I do not claim that it is more important for the advancement of human understanding than, say, solving the basic mysteries of modern physics, or resolving the mystery of consciousness. Media Law. Comparative and Historical Sociology.
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