Angel
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THE GOOD LIFE
This thread was inspired by an exchange in another thread.
Two old members reuniting asked after each other and one declared that he was living "a good life."
I posed the question "What is 'the good life'?"
Note the shift in the article from indefinite (a good life) to definite (the good life).
Two other members replied to my question, in effect taking it to be asking about "a good life" rather than "the good life," and both were of the opinion that the former was entirely up to the individual to say.
But Ted Bundy's idea of a good life was undoubtedly of the sort we would all consider a bad life. I could multiply counterexamples like this indefinitely.
So there's something problematic about taking the question to refer to "a good life" as individually determined.
So I reiterate my original question here and ask DP members about "the good life."
Bertrand Russell famously wrote that "the good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
What do you think "the good life" for human being consists in? What sort of life is "good" for all human beings to live?
If you can say why, so much the better!
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This thread was inspired by an exchange in another thread.
Two old members reuniting asked after each other and one declared that he was living "a good life."
I posed the question "What is 'the good life'?"
Note the shift in the article from indefinite (a good life) to definite (the good life).
Two other members replied to my question, in effect taking it to be asking about "a good life" rather than "the good life," and both were of the opinion that the former was entirely up to the individual to say.
But Ted Bundy's idea of a good life was undoubtedly of the sort we would all consider a bad life. I could multiply counterexamples like this indefinitely.
So there's something problematic about taking the question to refer to "a good life" as individually determined.
So I reiterate my original question here and ask DP members about "the good life."
Bertrand Russell famously wrote that "the good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
What do you think "the good life" for human being consists in? What sort of life is "good" for all human beings to live?
If you can say why, so much the better!
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