Fun happiness
Difficult bliss, easy pleasure
The engine of evolution
Socrates and the constitution of the body, is not it rest and inaction that destroy, and exercises and movements that ensure long term ? Theaetetus : if. Plato Theaetetus
According to our philosophy, humanity is doomed to achieve perfection.
The perfection of which we speak, included the accession of humanity to a state of total peace and serenity.. A state of bliss and ecstasy.
This coming for our future descendants.
Just like the individual evolution
Humanity is evolving. This change takes place slowly and deep. To become an adult, the individual must pass through a number of creative periods. It must pass the childishness, childhood, early adolescence, adolescence, etc.. At each step, he must learn to control better and better impulses, tendencies. Similarly, the human species must exceed unavoidable gradations. It must cross different levels of consciousness. And as for the individual, it should gradually decrease the power of his drives. Impulses inherited from its primate origin.
Pleasure as engine
Absolute happiness ( synonymous with bliss of nirvana ) is the quest of every man. This type of happiness is therefore sufficient to itself. In other words, the accession to absolute happiness is the end of desire. The end of any inclination, including constructive activities. But humanity, we see every day, has not yet reached perfection. It has not achieved its apotheosis social nor the highest possible level of comfort. She has not met her coronation in communications, transport and human relations.
So the man still needs actions builders to finish developing its structures. Unknowingly globalization materialize gradually this technical perfection. The market so unconsciousness (so dangerous ) develop all technical bases of universality.
The need impulses
To develop its physical structures, man needs trends, passions, impulses and desires. He must judge, make subjective representations, brief use all conventional engines of the action. Because we still need to take action and build our mind refuses to focus on ecstasy. It prevents us from developing any appeal to the purely contemplative state of bliss.
Man is born to think, so it is not for a moment do but pure thoughts, which would render happy if he could still support the tire and shoot. This is a solid life he can not be accommodated, he needs wagging and action, that is to say, it is necessary it is sometimes restless passions, he feels in his heart so vivid and profound sources.
The desire for pleasure
The desire to build
The rejection of ecstasy
For most of us, the loss of our tendencies ( aggression, desire, judgment ) is death... The mean trouble equality... The pure love synonymous with stupidity... Bliss synonymous with stupidity... And we believe it will always be so.
But human consciousness evolves. It keeps pace with the progress. The human mind is thus constantly adapting to the present. It is always in tune with this one... The ancient Greeks would never have imagined gender equality, space travel and the prohibition of slavery. Yet it is now our reality. Our mind has perfectly incorporated these concepts.
Through evolution, so the man manage to overcome the negative view that is currently focused on ecstasy. But for now, this fear of happiness is required. It is a kind of cunning of reason as understood by Hegel. A mechanism to boost human activity.
Making the future that belongs to the future
Obviously our world under construction, too much ecstasy would probably be penalized. This is why a system without aggression, without desire, without action, seems totally uninteresting and bland.. And that's fine. But this state "ultra- quiet " do not forget, correspond to a fully completed world. A perfectly adequate world for humans who live there.
We still know nothing about this future humanity. We also do not have enough evidence to show whether or not humanity evolves to this ecstatic state. We know nothing of the way it would take to get there. We know nothing of the security they put in place to protect its blissful helpless. But evolution takes place gradually... It adapts to all new. And she was never found in the outer gap between reality and the ability to cope.
Miguel de Unamuno
Read these few words of Miguel de Unamuno about love as the engine of the action.. Love looks and tends to the future, because his work is the continuation of our work, the characteristic of love is hope and feeds only hope. As as love sees his wish fulfilled, it saddens and soon discovers that what he held was not his own end and God presented him as bait in order to encourage the action, but his wife is beyond, so he took again his painful road of illusion and disillusionment through life. And advance, making memories with his disappointed hopes, and he pulls his memories of new hopes.
En route to the absolute spirit
Read the future in the past and present
The world is moving towards ecstasy
Man manufacturer has no affection for ecstasy and yet he built all the arrangements. In any case, the orientation of technological progress and some evidence seems to prove it. The world today is already in favor of a future world, turned to the ecstatic state.
Take for example, the possible end of libidinal desire.
Bliss is a kind of permanent and insurmountable enjoyment, it transcends the power sexual pleasure. However, if the pleasure of ecstasy is greater sexual pleasure, it naturally replace it *.
* It will replace if the man does not have any difficulty to access the spiritual ecstasy, which is not currently the case.
Suddenly, the easy attainment of ecstasy could threaten the survival of our species. And doing research for several decades ? She works on in vitro births. In other words, a form of development in the world can do without sex. She also works on the principle of cloning, the result is the same. Is not there a way to compensate for the end of sexual intercourse in a complete humanity ?
Spinoza and happiness
Comment on this small snippet of Spinoza about happiness.
The supreme effort of mind and virtue sovereign is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge from the third kind of knowledge arises the highest satisfaction of the mind that is possible
Anything can be designed in two ways, depending on whether it is considered in time or in eternity. This is also true of happiness. As it is designed in time, happiness is change, and we are told happy or unhappy depending on whether we are changing for better or worse ( Ethics, V, 39, scholium ) Spinoza
We then reach with the third kind, which Spinoza speaks, the level of bliss, ecstasy. This is the level of happiness, taken the side of eternity. Then trust philosophers, sages, mystics who experienced ecstasy. All say there is this supreme happiness, pleasure above all others. The contemplative awakening emptiness are well above the ordinary pleasures different sensations. In summary, during the construction of mankind, only a few scouts can access bliss. The pleasure is the lot of many.
Celui qui continue son étude
augmente de jour en jour
celui qui pratique le tao
diminue de jour en jour.
Diminue et diminue encore
pour en arriver à ne plus agir.
Par le non-agir,
il n'y a rien qui ne se fasse.
C'est toujours par le non-faire
que l'on gagne le monde entier.
Lao-tseu Tao-tö king 57
