The conquest of happiness pdf download

Thomas Jr. Gould PhD. Julian Hosp. Arthur Conklin. Fitzpatrick MD. PDF Read Design. Feldman Ph. PDF Read Dr. John Chung. Van de Walle. Hock Ph. De Veaux. Crossman PhD DSc. PDF Read Padre ricco padre povero. Quello che i ricchi insegnano ai figli sul denaro PDF - by. PDF - by Paul Harris. Videbeck PhD RN. PDF Read salt. These considerations lead us to the problem of the individual: what can a man or woman, here and now, in the midst of our nostalgic society, do to achieve happiness for himself or herself?

In discussing this problem, I shall confine my attention to those who are not subject to any extreme cause of outward misery. There are things to be said about such matters.

And they are important things, but they belong to a different order from the things that I wish to say. My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day. Unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, it appears inescapable.

Rio: Editora Nova Fronteira, For Bertrand Russell, the first cause of happiness that can be sought by all men is pleasure. For pleasure, one must understand the achievement of something that overcomes some obstacle. Russell understands that man always craves pleasure and he can only be reached when the difficulties in seeking it are overcome.

To make sense of the word "pleasure," Russell feels that overcoming obstacles requires some expertise. Expertise is key to encouraging creative instincts. In this understanding, the pleasure at its base should be understood as the realization of something that engenders creativity emphasis ours.

In this conceptualization, pleasure can be achieved both by scientists who try to answer problems by rigorous methods, and by painters and writers in contemplating their completed works. Therefore, Russell indicates that pleasure is the way to happiness when it awakens creativity in man emphasis ours.

Still in this incentive to creation, Russel explains that important factors to achieve happiness are cooperation and association emphasis ours. That is to say, creations and inventions must be dialogued or communicated to increase the incentive among men for the vocation.

The association of men, around a belief, can bring scientific or artistic questions, in different ways, but that cause pleasure. Happiness, then, has a well-defined path which is the belief in the ideals of the search for pleasure emphasis ours. In the period that Russell lived, there are philosophical explanations that treat man as a being-to-death or treat life as a drama. These explanations often treat life meaningless or empty of meanings.

Such explanations are considered by existentialist schools. Russell does not understand life this way. For him, when there is this loss of meaning man is led by nonsense or manias that are masks to escape from reality.

In the book, in question, Russell devotes a specific chapter that diverges from such existentialist explanations.

For him, people want to be loved and not tolerated. Melancholy is the loss of the taste of living. And Russell devotes a special chapter, in his book, to try to investigate this loss by the taste of living. Let us see the main arguments that he presents. The condition for man to distance himself from melancholy is to have a taste for living.