The Philosophy of a Happy Man

But this doesn't seem to be right either. For although he writes that:. Facts cannot make a man either happy, or unhappy - they are the case. It must lie outside of the world:. In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it there is no value—and if there were, it would be of no value.

If there is a value which is of value, it must lie outside all happening and being-so. For all happening and being-so is accidental. What makes it non-accidental cannot lie in the world, for otherwise this would again be accidental. It must lie outside the world. And thus the limits of the world cannot change. Interpreting Wittgenstein, especially the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus is always a fraught affair. There is no single, definitive reading of this text, and whatever one says about it is liable to be contradicted by someone else.

So what I offer here is not the answer, but I hope it is, at least, an answer. You write, following proposition 6.

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The limits of the world are precisely the point whereof one cannot speak propositions can only express facts; hence, the limits of my language means the limits of my world; what lies beyond the limits of the world cannot be spoken ofit is beyond what language is capable of saying. Thus, we get to this:. These limits are outside of the world, and thus outside of the possibility of proposition. They can be shown, but not said, not put into a propositional form, for every proposition concerns the world, that is, concerns facts e. The contents of the world, in a certain sense, cannot change; the world is only facts.

I do not mean to imply that change is impossible; merely that "the world" for Wittgenstein does not expand and contract: Yet this says nothing about the limits of the world, just as from inside a windowless room, I can say nothing about what the room is like from the outside.

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Nevertheless that there are limits can be shown, even if not through propositions for any limit which can be rendered as a proposition is therefore a fact and therefore a part of the world rather than its limit. So, then, what is it that might lie beyond the limits of the world? There are, I think, at least three important examples Wittgenstein gives in the Tractatus: It is in the discussion surrounding this last point i. In a recent interview with the Argentine publication Viva , Pope Francis offered advice for being a happier person, based on his own life experiences.

He encouraged people to be more positive and generous, to turn off the TV and find healthier forms of leisure, and, refreshingly, to stop trying to convert people to your own particular beliefs. The following are his top ten tips for a happier life. The Dalai Lama, another beloved spiritual leader who travels the world teaching his Tibetan brand of Buddhism, had this to say about how to achieve pleasure and happiness:.

The kind that sticks. So what defines someone as an optimist or a pessimist other than the glass-half-full-or empty test?

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Wherever you fall on the scale, professor of positivity Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says that optimism is a learned skill and that people can train themselves to be happier by changing the way they think and perceive the world. He cites recent studies that have shown how optimistic people are happier, have more social support, and feel less stressed and less depressed.

Like the Dali Llama, Seligman says optimists react to problems with a sense of confidence rather than with a sense of defeat e. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is. He also advises people who are frequently caught in a maelstrom of negative thoughts and worries to, literally, stop and smell the flowers: How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. Another purveyor of positivity is Gretchen Rubin, the Yale-trained lawyer and author of the wildly popular The Happiness Project: Not all cultures seek to maximise happiness, [67] [68] [69] and some cultures are averse to happiness.

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