Indeed, though one objection, and I mean no offense, but wrapping a word in quotes makes it suspiciously imprecise. Either someone is forced to live by having been born, or they aren't; "forced" is questionably ambiguous, IMO. — darthbarracuda
You are arguing that people will never come to a conclusion as to what the objective side of a "good life" is, just like you are arguing over my forced game argument now. Thus it points to more evidence that people can never know "the good life" or if they have it. — schopenhauer1
Your argument simply needs to meet the threshold of "there is doubt". — schopenhauer1
Just as one upon the summit of a mountain be-holds the groundlings, even so when the wise man casts away heedlessness by heedfulness and ascends the high tower of wisdom, this sorrowless sage beholds the sorrowing and foolish multitude.
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Heedful among the heedless, wide awake among the sleepy, the wise man advances like a swift horse leaving behind a weak nag.
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As upon a heap of rubbish in the roadside ditch blooms a lotus, fragrant and pleasing, even so, on the rubbish heap of blind wordlings the disciple of the Supremely Enlightened One shines resplendent in wisdom.
Only when life is viewed as an essentially burdensome problem does the search for solutions make any sense. — _db
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