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The key to Russell’s view of happiness resides in the idea that except in very rare cases, happiness is not something that simply happens; rather, it is something that must be achieved through effort – conquered. This makes me think of the saying that good things do not come to those who wait.
- The Philosopher as Historian
Peter Adamson on Russell’s History of Western Philosophy....
- The Philosopher as Historian
Apr 26, 2023 · The Road to Happiness. FOR OVER two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy. The Stoics, for centuries, attacked...
Jan 14, 2018 · In the Conquest of Happiness, published in 1930, Bertrand Russell examined the reasons why so many people seem anxious, upset or depressed in the early 20th century.
- Tim Cigelske
- Byronic Unhappiness
- Competition
- Boredom and Excitement
- Fatigue
This is the unhappiness that is supposed to be the stance of an intellectual who is simply too cool and educated to believe in what he perceives to be the “cheap” comforts of lesser men. Like Lord Byron, after whom Russell named this kind of unhappiness, “the men who hold this view are genuinely unhappy, but they are proud of their unhappiness, whi...
The feeling of competition, for Russell, is a sure way into an unhappy life. By competition, he doesn’t mean the necessary fight for survival among the very poor. He is focussing, in the whole book, not on those whose existential needs push them into situations of unhappiness, but on those who could,in principle, live better lives because they are ...
“We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom. We have come to know, or rather to believe, that boredom is not part of the natural lot of man, but can be avoided by a sufficiently vigorous pursuit of excitement,” Russell writes. For him, a boring life is nothing to be afraid of. Instead, boredom, or rather monotony, ...
Fatigue, which for Russell means mental exhaustion, not only one of the body, is the next factor that causes unhappiness in our lives. “A great many worries can be diminished by realising the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety,” he writes. This is a standard trope of many philosophies of life. The same we have heard from Epicur...
According to Bertrand Russell, what is a country's true source of power? Is Russell's billiard ball simile in "The Happy Life" effective or ineffective?
Feb 14, 2021 · In his book “The Conquest of Happiness”, Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) presents a theory of happiness that is broadly Aristotelian. Russell thinks that what makes us happy is an active life,...
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Russell connects love and happiness together when he explains that in the opinion of the traditional moralist, “love should be unselfish.” He disagrees with this statement and elaborates by illustrating a situation in which a man asks a woman to marry him.
