How and How Not to Be Happy by J. Budziszewski

How and How Not to Be Happy by J. Budziszewski

Author:J. Budziszewski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Gateway
Published: 2022-03-02T00:00:00+00:00


Some fans of Stoicism—and as the great oracle Twitter discloses, there are more of those than you might think—consider the doctrine of suicide cheering. Augustine saw that it is closer to despair:

I am at a loss to understand how the Stoic philosophers can presume to say that these are no ills, though at the same time they allow the wise man to commit suicide and pass out of this life if they become so grievous that he cannot or ought not to endure them.… O happy life, which seeks the aid of death to end it! If it is happy, let the wise man remain in it; but if these ills drive him out of it, in what sense is it happy?20



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