The Wishdom of Life
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In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term as the art namely of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success an art the theory of which may be called Eudaemonology for it teaches us how to lead a happy existence Such an existence might perhaps be defined as one which looked at from a purely objective point of view or rather after cool and mature reflection for the question necessarily involves subjective considerations would be decidedly preferable to non existence implying that we should cling to it for its own sake and not merely from the fear of death and further that we should never like it to come to an end Now whether human life corresponds or could possibly correspond to this conception of existence is a question to which as is well known my philosophical system returns a negative answer On the eudaemonistic hypothesis however the question must be answered in the affirmative and I have shown in the second volume of my chief work ch 49 that this hypothesis is based upon a fundamental mistake Accordingly in elaborating the scheme of a happy existence I have had to make a complete surrender of the higher metaphysical and ethical standpoint to which my own theories lead and everything I shall say here will to some extent rest upon a compromise in so far that is as I take the common stand point of every day and embrace the error which is at the bottom of it My remarks therefore will possess only a qualified value for the very word img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img
