Thought you'd like that. [Flynn gives a small smile.] Though, not exactly. To him, happiness was the absence of physical pain and mental disturbance. [Which would be so nice right now.]
Everything we do, he claims, we do for the sake of gaining pleasure for ourselves. Problem is, as we get older we lose track of what really makes us happy. Fear of punishment, of the gods, of death inhibit us, make us seek out pleasures we think we want? But won't actually fulfill us in the end.
He actually proclaimed that humans should not live in fear of the gods which at the time was pretty revolutionary.
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Thought you'd like that. [Flynn gives a small smile.] Though, not exactly. To him, happiness was the absence of physical pain and mental disturbance. [Which would be so nice right now.]
Everything we do, he claims, we do for the sake of gaining pleasure for ourselves. Problem is, as we get older we lose track of what really makes us happy. Fear of punishment, of the gods, of death inhibit us, make us seek out pleasures we think we want? But won't actually fulfill us in the end.
He actually proclaimed that humans should not live in fear of the gods which at the time was pretty revolutionary.