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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and…
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The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad…
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the…
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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot…
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The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of…
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What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in…
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In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people…
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately…
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